Opinion of Mr Advocate General Mischo delivered on 26 March 1987

1 Translated from the French.

2 Regulation (EEC) No 685/69 of the Commission of 14 April 1969 laying down detailed rules of application for intervention on the market in butter and cream (OJ, English Special Edition 1969 (I), p. 194).

3 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1746/84 of 21 June 1984 amending Regulation (EEC) No 685/69 (OJ 1984, L 164 of 22. 6. 1984, p. 32).

4 OJ, English Special Edition 1968 (I), p. 256.

5 Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of the Council of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products (OJ, English Special Edition, 1968 (I), p. 176.

6 Judgment of 23 February 1978 in Case 92/77 An Bord Bahne Cooperative Limited v Minister for Agriculture [1978] ECR 497, paragraphs 16 and 17 at p. 512.

7 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 704/83 of 28 March 1983, OJ L 82, p. 13.

8 Judgment of 23 February 1978 in Case 92/77 [1978] ECR 497 at p. 513, paragraphs 21 and 22.

9 Regulation (EEC) No 982/73 of the Commission of 9 April 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 685/69, OJ L 97, p. 33, second recital.

10 Anicle 24 (3) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 685/69 of the Commission of 14 April 1969, as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 704/83 of 28 March 1983.

11 See in particular the judgment of 22 January 1986 in Case 250/84 Eridania Zuccherifici Mationali SpA and Others v Cassa Conguaglio Zucchero and Others [1986] ECR 117, paragraphs 37 and 38 at p.134.

12 Case 106/83 Sermide SpA v Cassa Conguaglio Zucchero and Others [1984] ECR 4209.

13 Case 50/73 Holtz & Willemsen GmbH v Council and Commission [1974] ECR 675, paragraph 13 at p. 696.

14 Article 2 (d) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1328/84 of 14 May 1984 introducing private-storage aid for Kefalotyri and Kasseri cheeses, OJ L 129 of 15.5.1984, p. 19.

15 Article 8 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 985/68.

16 Case 74/74 CNTA v Commission [1975] ECR 533.

17 Judgment of 14 January 1987 in Case 278/84 Federal Republic of Germany v Commission [1987] ECR 1, paragraph 36 at p. 47; Judgment of 16 May 1979 in Case 84/78 Angelo Tomadini Sne v Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato [1979] ECR 1801.

18 Judgment of 11 March 1987 in Case 265/85 Van den Bergh en Jurgens and Van Dijk Food Products v EEC [1987] ECR 1155, paragraph 44 at p. 1181.

19 Answer given on 21 October 1983 to Written Question No 731/83 of Mr Pol Marck, Official Journal C 335 of 12.12.1983, p. 6.