Opinion of Mr Advocate General Van Gerven delivered on 13 December 1989

1 Original language: Dutch.

2 Council Regulation (EEC) No 856/84 of 31 March 1984 amending Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products (OJ 1984, L 90, p. 10).

3 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).

4 Council Regulation (EEC) No 857/84 of 31 March 1984 adopting general rules for the application of the levy referred to in Article 5c of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 in the milk and milk products sector (OJ 1984, L 90, p. 13).

5 Council Regulation (EEC) No 857/84 of 31 March 1984 adopting general rules for the application of the levy referred to in Article 5c of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 in the milk and milk products sector (OJ 1984, L 90, p. 13).

6 In the case of the United Kingdom thai quantity amounts to 187000 tonnes (see the annex to Regulation No 857/84). Compare this with the total quantity of 15698000 tonnes of milk for delivery to dairies which was assigned to the United Kingdom for the first year (see Article 5c(3) of Regulation No 804/68).

7 Council Regulation (EEC) No 590/85 of 26 February 1985 amending Regulation (EEC) No 857/84 laying down general rules for the application of the levy referred to in Article 5c of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 in the milk and milk product sector (OJ 1985, L 68, p. 1).

8 Judgment of 17 May 1988 in Case 84/87 Erpclding [1988] ECR 2647.

9 Article 6(2) of Reguládon (EEC) No 857/84 and the annex thereto.

10 See the fifth recital in the preamble to Regulation (EEC) No 857/84.

11 Article 6(1) and (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 857/84.

12 Article 3(1) and 4(1 Hb) of Regulation (EEC) No 857/84.

13 Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 857/84.

14 Article 4(l)(a) of Regulation (EEC) No 857/84.