Luxembourg, 09/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Court of Justice has rejected Luxembourg's appeal calling for the cancellation of the European Directive of 16 February 1998 concerning the right of lawyers to set up in another Member State with the qualification of lawyer they obtained in their country of origin. The Court rejected Luxembourg's arguments that the Directive: - would treat the lawyers of a country differently from "migrant" lawyers; - that it did not provide sufficient protection for consumers and would not lead to justice being carried out efficiently. The EU judges also ruled that this Directive concerned the mutual recognition of professional qualifications and could therefore be adopted by the Council by qualified majority voting, which the Grand Duchy had also challenged.