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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9429
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Precautionary principle does not prevail in every case dealing with environment

Luxembourg, 21/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - Two judgments brought forward last week examined the primacy of the precautionary principle from different angles. In case C-252/05, the Court of Justice considered that, on the basis of this principle, waste water which escapes from a sewerage network constitutes waste. In another case (joint cases C-439/05 P and C-454/05 P), however, the advocate General did not find that the precautionary principle alone could justify exemption from Community law...

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