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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8899

2 March 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 36 / 40
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Legal persons cannot challenge EU regulation felt to be incompatible with WTO rules before national court

Luxembourg, 01/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - A legal person cannot bring the fact that a Community regulation has been found by the WTO dispute settlement panel to be incompatible with certain rules of the World Trade Organisation before a court of a Member State.

In the Van Parys ruling, the Court of Justice replied in these terms to the Belgian Council of State, which was to rule in a dispute between an importer of bananas from Ecuador, the company Van Parys, and the Belgian authorities....

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