More court cases on environment

The Court's latest judgments concerned the 1979 "Sixth Amendment" Directive, which set up a testing and notification scheme for new substances. Denmark was censured for having fixed 1 October 1980 as the date when any chemical not previously on the market would have to be tested and notified as a "new" substance. The Directive set a date of 18 September 1981 and, according to the Court, did not give discretion to Member States to amend it.