- Volume 9 (2014), Issue 4
- Vol. 9 (2014), No. 4
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- Pages 266 - 267
- pp. 266 - 267
Switzerland: Will Switzerland Back Down? The “Cassis de Dijon Principle” and Foodstuffs
With the implementation of the revised Swiss Federal Act on Technical Barriers to Trade (Bundesgesetz über die technischen Handelshemmnisse, herein referred to as the “TBT”) on 1 July 2010, Switzerland unilaterally applied the so-called “Cassis de Dijon Principle”. This principle, based upon a judgment by the European FederalCourt of Justice (ECJ) in 1979, states that products that have been legally produced and marketed in a Member State of the European Union (EU) or in the European Economic Area (EEA) may be sold without any further approval in Switzerland.