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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11079

15 May 2014
Contents Publication in full By article 34 / 34
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / (ae) health
Germany overruled on heavy metals in toys

Brussels, 14/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 14 May, the General Court of the EU (ruling T-198/12) upheld the decision of the European Commission to deny Germany authorisation to keep in place its current limit values for arsenic, antimony and mercury in toys, as the country has failed to prove that these limit values, which correspond to the former EU standard (directive 88/378/EEC of 1988 on toy safety), guarantee better protection than the new European limit values (directive...

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