IRISH MEAT DEAL ILLEGAL UNDER COMPETITION LAW SAYS ECJ JUDGE
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ADVOCATE general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared that an Irish initiative designed to reduce over-capacity in Ireland's beef processing sector breaks European Union (EU) competition law.
In a formal opinion, Verica Trstenjak found illegal the operation of Ireland's Beef Industry Development Society Ltd (BIDS), which was formed in 2002 to unite most of the country's processors - accounting for 93% of beef sold in the country.
The problem, ruled the advocate general, was that BIDS was designed to funnel compensation to ...
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