Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage
by awestroke on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:02AM
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Sounds like a law that is incompatible with EU.
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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage
by Fragoel2 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:04AM
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I think for now there's no EU law on the subject. When there will be one it will of course override the national one.
Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage
by fnmron on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:15AM
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Really, how?
Where does that sound come from?
Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage
by arlort on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:10AM
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One of the EU pillars is free movement of goods, meaning that you generally can't prevent someone from a different country from selling goods in your country.
This means that the decree is either incompatible with EU law, or it is pointless as you'd just be killing your own domestic market while exposing yourself to other EU countries anyway
GP's mistake was assuming that this isn't pure virtue signalling, the decree is compatible with EU law because it applies only to italian producers
Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage
by fnmron on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:13AM
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So if netherlands legalizes marijuana then Greece can't outlaw it because EU law?
Seems pretty absurd!
States have the right to set standards on the market regardless of Brussels.