Yahoo – AFP,
September 21, 2016
Brussels (AFP) - The EU's top court on Wednesday ruled that there can be no exceptions to a ban on animal testing by cosmetics manufacturers in the bloc.
The European Court of Justice said EU law bars any cosmetic product containing ingredients which have been tested on animals, wherever that may occur (AFP Photo/Emmanuel Dunand) |
Brussels (AFP) - The EU's top court on Wednesday ruled that there can be no exceptions to a ban on animal testing by cosmetics manufacturers in the bloc.
The case
arose in Britain after three companies sought to market cosmetics that were
developed for sale in China and Japan using animal tests outside the European
Union.
The European
Court of Justice said EU law bars any cosmetic product containing ingredients
which have been tested on animals, wherever that may occur.
"The
Court states next that EU law makes no distinction depending on where the
animal testing was carried out," the Luxembourg-based ECJ said in a
statement.
The law
aims to promote the use of alternative methods to meet consumer safety
standards and that "objective would be seriously compromised if the
prohibitions... could be circumvented by carrying out the animal testing in
third countries," it said.
The
European Federation for Cosmetic Ingredients (EFCI), which brought the case,
had argued that the companies did not break the law since the animal testing
had been carried out to comply with regulations in third countries.
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