Repon for the Hearing delivered in Case 250/85

1 Language of the Case: French.

2 As Brother inserted in its reply certain observations which it drew up jointly with the applicants in Joined Cases 260/85 and 106/86, Joined Cases 273/85 and 107/86 Joined Cases 277 and 300/85, and Case 301/85, it is appropriate to summarize those observations under a separate heading which also includes the Council's response to those observations. All those arguments will be set out in Section III (B) of this report.

3 In this case, the arguments summarized below were put forward by the Commission in the defence it had submitted before Brother withdrew its application in so far as it was directed against the Commission. Those arguments correspond by and large to the arguments put forward by the Commission in its submissions as intervener in the other cases.