Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Professor Graham Butler:

Yes, I mentioned them in an opinion and I believe Professor Koutrakos will have something to say about them as well. Off the top of my head, there is the 2024 judgment in the Confédération paysanne case, we have the Werner judgment from the mid-1990s and we also have the Leifer judgment. The legacy cases from the 1990s, I should add, deal with export restrictions more so than import ones. In one case, the national measures were disproportionate.