JUDGMENT OF 17. 12. 1970 —CASE 26/70 EINFUHR- UND VORRATSSTELLE v HENCK

In Case 26/70 Reference to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the Hessischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Higher Administrative Court of the Land of Hesse), Kassel, for a preliminary ruling in the action pending before that court between

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

gives the following

JUDGMENT

Issues of fact and of law

I — Facts and procedure

II— Observations submitted to the Court

(a) On the formal level

(b) The substance of the system in dispute

(a) The legality of the intervention by the Management Committee

(b) The principle of proportionality

(c) The legal basis of the system of deposits on exportation

(d) The power of the Commission to adopt the system of deposits

Grounds of judgment

Costs