Luxembourg, 06/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Court of First Instance will statute on request from thirteen Portuguese fighting bull farmers who challenge an embargo that the Commission had instituted in the context of the fight against spongiform encephalopathy. The Commission justified its export ban on Portuguese bulls towards France and Spain due to the failings it had noted in Portugal. The risks of a spread in the Mad Cow disease being, according to it, "considerable."
The Court will...