Directive (EU) 2015\/1535<\/b><\/a>), as a result of failure to notify the Commission and other EU Member States of the draft law, prior to its adoption.<\/p>\n\u201cFollowing a formal notice letter in February 2023 and a reasoned opinion in November 2024, the Commission states that France remains non-compliant, which justifies legal action at the European level,\u201d explained Montanari. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe proceedings before the CJEU may take between 18 and 24 months on average. Should the CJEU agree with the Commission\u2019s arguments, it could declare the French legislation incompatible with EU law, thereby requiring the French legislature to repeal or amend the national law in question.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat said, until the CJEU issues a ruling, economic operators must continue to comply with the requirements imposed by French legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other EU Member States have been also investigated at the same time and for the same reasons, including Spain. <\/p>\n
However, as Montanari told Food Manufacture, \u201cthe Spanish authorities have somehow softened their approach all along the way to make sure national labelling measures are not excessively trade restrictive of EU trade, in particular\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French law dictates that household product waste that falls under Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) \u2013 which includes food…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[12045,101071,14035,103430,2000,299,73682,36,33655,103431,44888,103432,102393,59016,45907,9394,457,24337,103433,4465,103434,7674],"class_list":{"0":"post-273104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-blue","9":"tag-blue-sky","10":"tag-cloud","11":"tag-concepts-and-ideas","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-flag","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-french-culture","17":"tag-french-flag","18":"tag-horizontal","19":"tag-le-tricolore","20":"tag-low-angle-view","21":"tag-nation","22":"tag-nobody","23":"tag-outdoors","24":"tag-people","25":"tag-red","26":"tag-single-object","27":"tag-sunlight","28":"tag-tricolore","29":"tag-white"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114876485752104868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}