JUDGMENT OF 3. 3. 1971 — CASE 2/70 RIVA v COMMISSION

In Case 2/70

THE COURT composed of: R. Lecourt, President, A. M. Donner (Rapporteur) and A. Trabucchi, Presidents of Chambers, R. Monaco, J. Mertens de Wilmars, P. Pescatore and H. Kutscher, Judges, Advocate-General: K. Roemer Registrar: A. Van Houtte

gives the following

JUDGMENT

Issues of fact and of law

I — Summary of the facts

II — Conclusions of the parties

III — Procedure

IV — Submissions and arguments of the parties

A — Objection of res judicata

B — Objection based on the limitation period

C — The substance of the case

A — Inadmissibility of the application in so far as it is directed against the provisions of the decisions at issue which revoked the decisions of 18 December 1963

B — The objection of res judicata

C — The objection based on the limitation period

D — The substance of the case

A — The period of limitation

B — The substance of the case

Grounds of judgment

The submission relating to the principle of res judicata

The submission relating to the limitation period

The substance of the case

Costs