POLES AND FINNS FACE LEGAL PRESSURE OVER EU PLASTICS FOOD CONTACT LAW
September 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POLISH and Finnish governments have come under intense legal pressure from the European Commission to implement European Union (EU) directive 2008/39/EC on plastic materials and articles in contact with food. Brussels has sent legal final warnings to Warsaw and Helsinki giving them two months to explain how they will bring their national laws in line. If not, the Commission may launch a case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which has the authority to order compliance, on pain of daily recurring fines. "If the member states ...
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