Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the export of the waste batteries to the French plant could be authorized as environmentally sound disposal.
Decisione estratta
No sufficient guarantee of environmentally sound disposal was shown, so the export prohibition stood.
Motivazione estratta
The court accepted the lower body’s assessment that the French plant had environmental compliance problems and that Swiss standards required a disposal method meeting the state of the art and the inland-disposal principle where possible and sensible.