The German authorities’s plan to legalise leisure hashish use may fall foul of EU legal guidelines, in response to a authorized evaluation by the Bundestag leaked to German information web site RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland. An EU Council choice from 2004 says hashish gross sales ought to be criminalised. The free-travel Schengen-zone treaty, of which Germany is an element, additionally requires curtailment of circulation. Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Spain have discovered loopholes by part-legalising consumption.