COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Transport

Advocate General holds that a member state can subject carriage of goods crossing its territory from Turkey to authorisation under certain conditions

Brussels, 26/04/2018 (Agence Europe)

In his opinion on Thursday 26 April in Case C-629/16, Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe, the Advocate General at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), judged that a member state of the Union could subject the commercial carriage of goods from Turkey (or goods which go through its territory or if this is the destination for these goods), to authorisation, on the condition that this authorisation precedes the entry into force of the standstill clause concluded between the EU and Turkey.

Under Austrian...