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CzechRep lost suit with EU, does not have law on medicines ... by a Czech administrative court. Judge Ales Roztocil from the NSS said the European Court's ruling can have influence on dozens of Czech cases. Skoma-Lux was fined for having entered wrong data in a unified customs declaration in 2004.
The customs authority proceeded according to relevant regulations of the European Community (EC) customs code. However, the Regional Court in Ostrava, north Moravia, later ruled the European regulation was not duly published in Czech at that time, so it could not form a base for imposing the fine. Even though according to the Czech Republic's EU Accession Treaty, all EC legislation valid on the date of the accession should be published in Czech, the Czech version of the EC legislation has been published on the Internet only, Dostalova said.
(Ceske Noviny)
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