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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9208

10 June 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Sale of chewing tobacco must be banned in Åland Islands as in rest of Finland

Luxembourg, 09/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Court of Justice has condemned Finland, which is responsible in European law for the conduct of the Åland Islands, which has not transposed the 1989 European directive, modified in 2001, banning the marketing of chewing tobacco. The Finnish government's argument that the Islands are, as a result of their autonomy, solely competent to legislate, was not accepted by the European judges. Finland, they say, did not request an opt-out for the...

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