Opinion of Mr Advocate General Tesauro delivered on 19 April 1989

1 Original language Italian

2 In fact, the Commission's agent claimed, both in the written observations and at the hearing, that sodium caseinate is naturally present in amounts fess than 3% in the dried matter of milk. That statement was later rectified on the basis of information supplied by the expert.

3 It should be noted that the Commission did not see any difficulty in the presence of 7.1% of calcium casemate.