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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7667

2 March 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Belgian regulation limiting opticians to testing eyesight is challenged by British group Vision Express

Luxembourg, 01/03/2000 (Agence Europe) - The British group Vision Express has argued before the Court of Justice that the Belgian Royal Decree of 1967 which confines opticians to tests of eyesight, while eye examinations are reserved to ophthalmologists, is illegal. Its Belgian subsidiary GrandVision Belgium cannot make use of certain equipment which, explained the parent company, has led to the success of its 133 shops in the United Kingdom, where opticians may legally examine the retina...

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