an Commission. The Commission supervises the day-to-day administration of the Community, acts to enforce European law by taking action against Member States in the Court of Justice if necessary, and presents legislative proposals for the consideration of the Council and of the Parliament. Commission Decision 96/239/EC banned the export of any British beef products after the BSE crisis. This led to United Kingdom v Commission (1998) when the UK claimed that the Commission did not have the necessary power. Dismissing the action, the Court said the Decision had been made within the Commission's powers to protect health, and was not disproportionate to the aim to be achieved.
             The House of Lords is no longer the highest UK court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) now having superior status. On the whole, this has only affected civil law and trading as opposed to criminal law. Yet some criminal cases can be appealed to the ECJ. The ECJ has the power to strike down national law in favour of community law e.g. R v Secretary of State for Transport ex p Factortame (1991) when the ECJ and the House of Lords suspended the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 as contrary to community law and therefore illegal. British courts now have direct power to strike down any legislature incompatible to the EU. In Bossa v Nordress Ltd. (1998), an employment tribunal was told that it had the power to overturn s.8 of the Race Relat
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