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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9124

4 February 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 36 / 44
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/jha/justice
Franco Frattini wants media libel to be excluded from draft Rome II regulation

Brussels, 03/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - During a meeting on 31 January with members of the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee, European Commissioner Franco Frattini called for media libel to be excluded from Article 6 of the draft 2003 regulation on the law governing non-contractual obligations, known as the Rome II Regulation. He said the only way to break the deadlock was for libel in the media to be excluded from the scope of application of the future regulation. He acknowledged...

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