Opinion of Advocate General Jacobs delivered on 9 March 1994

1 Original language: English.

2 OJ 1992 L 181, p. 12.

3 OJ 1992 L 221, p. 22.

4 See Annex I to Regulation No 1765/92.

5 OJ 1991 L 356, p. 17, see below, paragraphs 26 et seq.

6 Regulation No 1765/92, Article 2(2), first subparagraph.

7 Article 2(2), second subparagraph.

8 Article 2(3).

9 Article 2(5).

10 Article 8(2).

11 Article 2(5).

12 Article 8(3).

13 See Articles 4 and 5.

14 See text of Article 10, above at paragraph 9.

15 See Article 11(3) and Article 11(6).

16 Article 10(1).

17 OJ 1974 L 201, p. 5.

18 OJ 1979 L 190, p. 8.

19 OJ 1985 L 151, p. 15. See also Council Regulation (EEC) No 2194/85 adopting general rules concerning special measures for soya beans, OJ 1985 L 204, p. 1.

20 See above, paragraph 3.

21 See Commission, The development and future of the common agricultural policy, EC Bulletin, Supplement No 5 of 1991, p. 9.

22 Ibid.

23 Op. cit., p. 12.

24 See the fifth recital of the preamble to Regulation No 3766/91, below paragraph 74 and see also The development and future of the common agricultural policy cited in note 20, p. 26.

25 OJ 1994 L 30, p. 2.

26 OJ 1994 L 30, p. 7. See also Commission Regulation (EC) No 243/94 amending the contested Commission Regulation, OJ 1994 L 30, p. 41.

27 See Council Decision 93/355/EEC, OJ 1993 L 147, p. 25.

28 Case 108/81 Amvlum v Council [1982] ECR 3107, paragraph 19 of the judgment; Case C-350/88 Delacre and Others v Commission [1990] ECR I-395, paragraphs 15-16.

29 Case 166/78 Italy v Council [1979] ECR 2575, paragraph 8 of the judgment; Joined Cases 63/90 and 67/90 Portugal and Spain v Council [1992] ECR I-5073, paragraph 16.

30 Case 230/78 Eridania v Minister for Agriculture and Forestry [1979] ECR 2749, paragraphs 15-16 of the judgment.

31 See Case 179/84 Bozzetti v ¡nvernizzi [1985] ECR 2301, paragraph 34 of the judgment.

32 Case 84/87 Erpelding v Secrétaire d'État à l'Agriculture et à la Viticulture [1988] ECR 2647, paragraph 30 of the judgment. See also Case C-177/90 Kühn v Lanďwirtscbafiskam-mer Weser-Ems [1992] ECR I-35, paragraph 18.

33 Joined Cases 279/84, 280/84, 285/84 and 286/84 Rau v Commission [1987] ECR 1069, paragraph 34 of the judgment; Case C-350/88 Delacre and Others v Commission, cited in note 27, paragraph 32.

34 Case 5/73 Balkan-Import-Export v Hauptzollamt Berlin-Packhof [1973] ECR 1091, paragraph 24 of the judgment; Case 203/86 Spain v Council [1988] ECR 4563, paragraph 10.

35 Joined Cases 197/80 to 200/80, 243/80, 245/80 and 247/80 Ludwigskafener Walzmühle v Council and Commission [1981] ECR 3211, paragraph 41 of the judgment.

36 Case 68/86 United Kingdom v Council [1988] ECR 855, paragraph 10 of the judgment; Case C-331/88 Fedesa and Others [1990] ECR I-4023, paragraph 26.

37 See Regulation No 1765/92, preamble, second recital, above paragraph 4.

38 Case C-350/88 Delacre and Others v Commission, cited in note 27, paragraph 33 of the judgment; Case 245/81 Edeka v Germany [1982] ECR 2745, paragraph 27.

39 Delacre, cited in note 27; Case 84/78 Tomadini v Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato [1979] ECR 1801, paragraph 22 of the judgment.

40 Delacre, cited in note 27, paragraph 34 of the judgment; Case 230/78 Eridania v Minister for Agriculture and Forestry, cited in note 29, paragraph 22.

41 Case 5/67 [1968] ECR 83 at 98.

42 Case 106/81 Kind v EEC [1982] ECR 2885.

43 See e. g. Case 6/78 Union Française de Céréales v Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Jonas [1978] ECR 1675; Case 119/86 Spain v Council and Commission [1987] ECR 4121.

44 See Article 55(6) of the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Kingdom of Denmark, Ireland, the Kingdom of Norway and the United Kingdom to the EEC and to the Euratom (OJ, English Sp. Ed., 27 March 1972) and Article 85(4) of the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to the European Communities (OJ 1985 L 302, p. 23).

45 See e. g. Case 55/75 Balkan-Import Export v Hauptzollamt Berlin-Packhof [1976] ECR 19, paragraph 15 of the judgment; and Case 58/86 Coopérative Agńcole d'Approvisionnement des Avirons v Receveur des Douanes [1987] ECR 1525, paragraph 9.

46 COM(91) 379 final, OJ 1991 C 303, p. 1.