Opinion of Mr Advocate General Mischo delivered on 15 April 1986

1 Translated from the French.

2 Official Journal, English Special Edition 1968 (I), p. 176.

3 Treaties establishing the European Communities, 1978 Edition, pp. 1304 to 1307.

4 See in particular: Case 83/78 Pigs Märkning Board v Redmond [1978] ECR 2347; Case 222/82 Apple and Pear Development Council v Lewis [1983] ECR 4083; Case 123/83 Bureau Interprofessionnel du Cognac v Guy Clair, [1985] ECR 391.

5 Official Journal 1978, L 171, p. 12.

6 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1422/78 of 20 June 1978 concerning the grinting of certain special rights to milk producer organizations in the United Kingdom (Official Journal 1978, L 171, p. 14).

7 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1565/79 of 25 July 1979 laying down rules for implementing Regulation No 1422/78 (Official Journal 1979, L 188, p. 29).

8 Statutory Initrumenti 1981 No 322 and No 323, which came into force on I April 1981.

9 That had been the case since 1979 under Statutory Instrument 1979 No 249, which came into force on 4 April 1979; its provisions were included in virtually identical terms in Statutory Instrument 1981 No 323.

10 [1982] ECR 4547.

11 See the judgment of the Court in Case 74/82 Commission v Ireland [1984] ECR 317.

12 See p. 6 of the letter of 10 June 1982.

13 In the form of whole milk, semi-skimmed milk, skimmed milk, buttermilk, cream and yoghurt; see Article 4 (2) of Regulation No 1422/78.

14 [1983] ECR 4083 at p. 4124.

15 Regulation (EEC) No 985/68 of the Council of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for intervention on the market in butter and cream (Official Journal, English Special Edition 1968 (I), p. 256).

16 Even though it could be held that the proper functioning of the intervention system in mother Member Sute is interfered with if sales to intervention there are unduly increased because of the difficulty of exporting to the United Kingdom.