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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9894

5 May 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Austrian provisions on obligation to sell books at fixed price are unjustified hindrance to free movement of goods

Brussels, 04/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - In its judgement of Thursday 30 April 2009 (Case C-531/07), the Court of Justice of the European Communities rules that the Austrian provisions banning importers of German-language books from fixing a price lower than the retail price fixed by the publisher in the state of publication constitutes a restriction on the free movement of goods which cannot be justified. The EU Treaty prohibits quantitative import restrictions, as well as all measures with...

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