FRANCE SAFETY CASE
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE FRENCH government should be censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for flouting a deadline to implement Euratom legislation on informing the public radiological emergencies, an ECJ advocate general has said. In formal advice - usually accepted by the court - Leendert Geelhoed stated that France had missed the October 2000 deadline for transposing its rules into national law. Although there had been reforms since, bringing France closer to implementing the directive, by 2000, he agreed it had failed to ensure information would be ...
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