Luxembourg, 25/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Court of Justice has just overturned the European Commission's 1999 decision not to allow the Danish regulatory activity- which is more stringent than that of the EU- on the use of nitrates and nitrites as food additives.
The Court of Justice has just ruled (see p.2, para 4) that a Member State asking to keep exceptional national provisions taken before a European directive was adopted, can claim that it assesses the risk to public health in a...