SNP alcohol policy could give UK government a Brussels hangover

By Colin Donald, Business Editor

Minimum pricing branded a competition law minefield

MEASURES PROPOSED by the Scottish government to establish minimum prices for alcohol carry a "significant risk" of exposing the UK government to a European legal challenge, lawyers have warned.

English and Scottish competition law specialists say that proposals for minimum retail pricing contained in the SNP government's alcohol strategy document contain potential legal snares, infringement of which would make a Westminster government answerable to European law courts.
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