POULTRY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN RULES LAND ITALY IN COURT
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) poultry product exporters to Italy may be freed of a requirement that they identify the EU country in which the meat was sourced in future. The European Commission has decided that this Italian labelling requirement breaks EU freedom of trade rules and so is taking Italy to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which could order the rules are relaxed. The Italians allege that the labelling eases identifying potentially harmful poultry meat during disease outbreaks. But a Commission official argued this is "not ...
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