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Future French furniture law to go beyond EU measures

26 Oct 2011

On 8 August 2011, the European Commission received a notification from the French Environment Ministry under the so-called 98/34 procedure regarding a draft decree on the prevention and management of waste furniture. Under this procedure, any draft national rules imposing technical requirements on producers that go further than EU rules on the same topic, must be reported to and cleared by the Commission. This is done so as to prevent unjustified barriers to trade within the EU’s internal market.

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