The Court of Justice of the EU has rejected the European Commission's action against the Czech Republic for refusing to take back 20,000 tonnes of Geobal mixture shipped to Poland between late 2010 and early 2011, in a judgment delivered on Thursday 14 March (Case C-399/17).
In 2017, alerted by an environmental association, the Commission investigated this transfer by train of Geobal, a mixture of acid tars from oil refining, carbon dust and calcium oxide, from Litvínov in the Czech...