64Article 152(1) EC provides that a high level of human health protection is to be ensured in the definition and implementation of all Community policies and activities. That protection of public health takes precedence over economic considerations and may therefore justify adverse economic consequences, even those which are substantial, for certain traders (see, to that effect, order in Case C-180/96 R United Kingdom v Commission [1996] ECR I-3903, paragraph 93, and Case T-158/03 Industrias Químicas del Vallés v Commission [2005] ECR II-2425, paragraph 134).
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