  In the MSSM, the CP parities of the neutral Higgs bosons may be mixed by
radiative effects induced by explicit CP violation in the third generation of
squarks. To allow for this possibility, we argue that the charged Higgs-boson
mass and tan(beta) should be used to parametrize the MSSM Higgs sector. We
introduce a new benchmark scenario of maximal CP violation appropriate for
direct searches of CP-violating MSSM Higgs bosons. We show that the bounds
established by LEP 2 on the MSSM Higgs sector may be substantially relaxed at
low and intermediate values of tan(beta) in the presence of CP violation, and
comment on possible Higgs boson signatures at LEP 2 within this framework.
