Brussels, 16/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - A national legislation may not allow a bank to invoke banking secrecy to an unlimited and unconditional extent as grounds to refuse to provide information about the name and address of the holder of an account which is suspected of selling counterfeit goods, the Court of Justice of the EU stated in a judgment (case C-580/13) returned on Thursday 16 July.
The judges reached the same conclusion as the Advocate General, in April of this year, in this case...