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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9801

11 December 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 36 / 42
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
France to pay €10 lump sum for late transposition of GMO directive

Brussels, 10/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 9 December, the Court of Justice found against France for its late transposition of the directive on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and their deliberate release (2001/18/EC). The French state will have to pay a lump sum of €10 million: the Court did not impose daily penalty payments, since transposition was completed in June of this year (case C-121/07). It was only after a previous judgment by the Court against it in 2004 (case...

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