Opinion of Mrs Advocate General Rozès delivered on 1 February 1984

1 Translated from the French.

2 Official Journal L 282, 1. 11. 1975, p. 77.

3 Official Journal, English Special Edition 1967, p. 63.

4 Regulation No 2967/76 of 23 November 1976, Official Journal L 339, 8. 12. 1976, p. 1.

5 Case 804/79, Commission v United Kingdom, [1981] ECR 1045, paragraph 20 at page 1073; see also, as regards the previous period, Case 32/79 [1980] ECR 2403, paragraph 10 at page 2432.

6 Ibid., paragraph 21.

7 Ibid., paragraph 22.

8 Ibid., paragraph 30.

9 Ibid., paragraphs 28 and 29.

10 The nonexistence of a common organization of the market certainly docs not amount to a legal vacuum: the general rules of the Treaty apply (sec the judgment of 16. 3. 1977 in Case 68/76, Commission v France, [1977] ECR 515, paragraph 21 et seq. at page 531, and part 4 of the Opinion of Mr Advocate General Capotorti, at p. 536.

11 Case 114/76 Beia-Mtihk Jose/Bergmann KG v Crows-Farm GmbH & Co. KG, [1977] ECR 1211, paragraph 6 at page 1220.

12 Case 51/74, Van der Hulst v Proditktschap voor Siergewassen, [1975] ECR 79, paragraph 25 at page 25.

13 Ibid., paragraph 27.

14 Ibid., paragraph 28.

15 Case 31/78, Bussone v Italian Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry, [1978] ECR 2429, paragraph 16 at page 2442.

16 Case 29/82, Van Luipen, [1983] ECR 151, paragraph 8 at page 162.

17 Case 251/78, Denkavit Futtermittel GmbH v Minister für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten, [1979] ECR 3369, paragraph 3 at page 3384, and Case 83/78, Pigs Marketing Board v Redmond [1978] ECR 2347, paragraphs 53 and 54 at pages 2370 and 2371.

18 Case 83/78, cited above, paragraph 57.

19 Case 177/78 Pigs and Bacon Commission v McCarren and Company Limited, [1979] ECR 2161, paragraph 14 at page 2188, and Case 83/78, cited above, paragraph 58.

20 Case 94/79, Vriend, [1980] ECR 327, paragraph 8 at page 339.

21 Case 120/78, Rewe v Bundesmonopolverwaltung fur Branntwein, [1979] ECR 649, paragraph 8 at page 683; see also Case 113/80, Commission v Ireland [1981] ECR 1625, paragraph 10 at page 1639.