Brussels, 25/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - As predicted, the Competitiveness Council adopted a regulation on controlling imports and exports of chemical substances used for the production of narcotics such as ecstasy and illegal psychotropic substances. The regulation is to be applied as of August 2005.
The new legislation answers the need for modernisation of the existing legislation, namely EC Regulation 3677/90. It provides for a correct balance to be struck between the need to combat the...