Luxembourg, 25/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - A traveller who brings back from abroad 500 kilos of rice in his personal luggage is not necessarily smuggling, explains the European Court of Justice. The Court of Appeal of Western Sweden (Hovratten for Vastra Sverige) will have to take account of this in judging a Swede, Kenny Lyckeskog, initially sentenced for attempted smuggling for having tried, in 1998, to introduce half a tonne of rice bought in Norway.
The Swedish Court of Appeal had asked...