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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9677

7 June 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 31 / 39
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
EU appeals against WTO panel ruling on dispute with US and Canada on hormone-treated meat

Brussels, 06/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a delicate time in the trade dispute that began in 1999 between the EU and Canada and the United States over hormone-treated meat, the EU appealed on 29 May 2008 against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel decision of 31 March 2008 confirming the illegality of the EU's embargo on hormone-treated meat imports. The WTO does not consider that the EU's October 2003 hormone directive is based on sufficiently solid scientific evidence to justify a ban...

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