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Continuation of the judicial saga about the “Distilbène daughters”: judgement on principle, or judgement of Solomon? On September 24, 2009, the French Supreme Court (the French “Cour de Cassation”) pronounced an astonishing decision concerning the liability of pharmaceutical laboratories towards victims who had been exposed to distilbene in utero and later on developed uterine cervical […]

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D – three months :on December 29, 2009, the order n°2008-1156 dated November 7, 2008 regarding work equipment and  individual protection equipment, and implementing the Machinery Directive  (Directive 2006/42/CE), will  enter into force. This means that, from this date, the design,  manufacture,  launch onto the market and the usage of machines on member states’ territory will […]

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