JUDGMENT OF 17. 12. 1981 — JOINED CASES 197 TO 200, 243, 245 AND 247/80 LUDWIGSHAFENER WALZMÜHLE v COUNCIL AND COMMISSION

In Joined Cases 197 to 200, 243, 245 and 247/80,

THE COURT (Second Chamber) composed of: O. Due, President of Chamber, P. Pescatore and F. Grévisse, Judges, Advocate General: P. VerLoren van Themaat Registrar: H. A. Rühl, Principal Administrator

gives the following

JUDGMENT

Facts and Issues

I — Facts

Marketing year 1978/79

II — Written procedure

III — Conclusions of the parties

IV — Submissions and arguments of the parties in the course of the written procedure

A — Admissibility

B — Substance

Certain matters of fact

Legal considerations

1. Breach of superior rules of law

2. Liability of the Community

3. Damage

4. Causal relationship

V — Oral procedure

Decision

Admissibility

Objection as to the misuse of the procedure under the second paragraph of Article 73

Objection as to failure to exercise rights of action before the national courts

Objection regarding a document submitted by the intervening parties Soubry and Coppens

Substance

Objections regarding the fixing of the threshold price for durum wheat for the year 1979

Damage and causal relationship

Costs