ICELAND – RULES OF ORIGIN
June 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLWHEN fish products are imported into Europe, and processed, when can they be marketed as European fish products? The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court has been asked to rule on whether the defrosting, heading, filleting, boning, trimming, salting and packing of fish imported frozen whole from outside the European Economic Area (the EU, plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) creates a product under European law sufficiently different to be considered of European origin. The case centres on Iceland, but a ruling would be a Europe-wide ...
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