Free trade v environment in French case against PCP ban

The balance between free trade and environmental protection in the EC Treaty is to be tested once again following a complaint by the French Government to the European Court of Justice. France claims that the European Commission acted unlawfully in authorising Germany to go further than existing EC legislation by banning imports of pentachlorophenol (PCP) and PCP-treated products.

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