Opinion of Mr Advocate General Mischo delivered on 19 March 1991

1 Original language: French.

2 OJ, English Special Edition 1970 (I), p. 206.

3 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1114/88 of 25 April 1988 amending Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 on the common organization of the market in raw tobacco (OJ 1988 L 110, p. 35).

4 Council Regulation (EEC) No 2268/88 of 19 July 1988 fixing, for the 1988 harvest, the norm and intervention prices and the premiums granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco, the derived intervention prices for baled tobacco, the reference qualities, the production areas and the guaranteed maximum quantities and amending Regulation (EEC) No 1975/87 (OJ 1988 L 199, p. 20).

5 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2158/89 of 18 July 1989, determining, for tobacco from the 1988 harvest, the quantity actually produced and the prices and premiums payable under the system of maximum guaranteed quantities (OJ 1989 L 207, p. 15).

6 Judgment in Joined Cases C-297/88 and C-197/89 Diodzi [1990] ECR I-3763.

7 Judgments in Case 98/78 Racke [1979] ECR 69, at p. 86, and Case 99/78 Decker [1979] ECR 101, at p. HI. See also judgment in Joined Cases 212/80 to 217/80 Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato v Salumi [1981] ECR 2735, at p. 2751; judgment in Case 84/81 Staple Dairy Products v Intervention Board [1982] ECR 1763, at p. 1777; judgments in Case 108/81 Amylum v Council [1982] ECR 3107, at p. 3130, Case 110/81 Roquette Frères v Owici/[1982] ECR 3159, at p. 3206 and Case 114/81 Tunnel Refineries y Council [1982] ECR 3189, at p. 3206; judgment in Case 224/82 Meiko-Konservenfabrik v Germany [1983] ECR 2539, at p. 2548.

8 Order in Case 1/84 R Il/ord v Commission [1984] ECR 423, at p. 431.

9 Emphasis added.

10 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1251/89 of 3 May 1989 amending Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 (OJ 1989 L 129, p. 16).

11 Judgment in Case C-350/88 Delacre [1990] ECR I-395, paragraphs 33 and 34.

12 For example, milk produced by a cow bought some time previously.

13 Paragraphs 5 and 6 of the Commission's observations.

14 Judgment in Case 1/73 Westzucker [1973] ECR 723, at p. 730.