11/04/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Publishers Council, EPC) has called on the European Court of Justice to accept Germany's appeal against the EU Directive banning tobacco advertising, "so as to protect fundamental press freedoms and the pluralism of the media". This directive of 6 July 1998 provides for the ban on all forms of advertising of tobacco products from 2002. For the President of EPC, Francisco Pinto Balsemao, it creates a "dangerous precedent", as it could soon extend to...