Luxembourg, 26/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - Advocate General Liindert Geelhoed considers that Spanish victims of contamination due to transfusions must be compensated on the basis of the 1985 European directive relating to liability from defective products even if the latter is less favourable than the Spanish law, that was in force before Spain transposed the European directive.
Victoria Gonzalez Sanchez was contaminated with the hepatitis C virus in a Spanish hospital centre, the "Centro...