ISPRA JRC NUCLEAR RESEARCH UNIT ECJ FLOOD CASE CONTAMINATION
December 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice's (ECJ) Court of First Instance has dismissed a legal claim brought by Italian car seller Autosalone Ispra against the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) alleging it was liable for flood damage. It is a neighbour of the European Union's (EU) Joint Research Centre's (JRC) nuclear research unit at Ispra, Italy, which provided an excavator to Ispra's mayor in 1992 to work on a nearby drain. Following a 2002 storm, it overflowed into the car showroom and its owner sued EURATOM (responsible for the Ispra centre). ...
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