LORMINES CASE
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLLEGAL bloody-mindedness is an occupational hazard in France, but Usinor subsidiary and inactive iron ore mine company Lormines has really come a cropper. At the European Court of Justice, Lormines has failed to summon protection from the European Commission against "discriminatory" charges by the French government for safety works. These were levied despite Paris closing its Lorraine iron ore mines in 1993, before it was privatised with the French steel industry in 1995 and 1997. The government later decided that the defunct mine's safety ...
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