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Číslo (Kód CELEX):
Number (CELEX Code):
61980J0132
Název:
Title:
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF 7 APRIL 1981. NV UNITED FOODS AND PVBA AUG. VAN DEN ABEELE V BELGIAN STATE. (PRELIMINARY RULING REQUESTED BY THE RECHTBANK VAN EERSTE AANLEG BRUGES). PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTION OF FISH. CASE 132/80.
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Publication:
REPORTS OF CASES 1981 PAGES 0995 - 1030
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Keywords
FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS;CUSTOMS UNION;CHARGES HAVING AN EQUIVALENT EFFECT;QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS;MEASURES HAVING EQUIVALENT EFFECT;TAXATION;AGRICULTURE;FISHERIES POLICY;VETERINARY LEGISLATION;
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Corresponding acts:
157E030;157E036;157E009;157E012;157E013
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Shrnutí (Summary of the Judgment):
1. ARTICLE 30 OF THE EEC TREATY HAS AS ITS OBJECTIVE TO REMOVE, AS BETWEEN MEMBER STATES, ALL BARRIERS TO THE FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS AND, IN PARTICULAR, THOSE WHICH ARE SPECIFICALLY AIMED AT IMPORTED PRODUCTS OR WHICH APPLY TO IMPORTED PRODUCTS AND TO DOMESTIC PRODUCTS UNDER DIFFERENT CONDITIONS SO AS TO RENDER THE MARKETING OF IMPORTED GOODS MORE DIFFICULT OR MORE EXPENSIVE.

2. IN THE ABSENCE OF COMMON OR HARMONIZED RULES ON HEALTH INSPECTIONS OF A PRODUCT, THE MEASURES OF CONTROL APPLIED BY THE MEMBER STATES MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED, IN PRINCIPLE, AS A RESTRICTION PROHIBITED UNDER THE EEC TREATY. NEVERTHELESS ALL DETAILED IMPLEMENTING RULES WHICH EXCEED THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CONTROLS AND ARE CAPABLE AS SUCH OF HINDERING OR RESTRICTING INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE MUST, BY VIRTUE OF ARTICLES 30 AND 36, BE CONSIDERED AS MEASURES HAVING AN EFFECT EQUIVALENT TO QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS. THUS THE REQUIREMENT OF A DOUBLE-CHECK IN THE EXPORTING COUNTRY AND IN THE IMPORTING COUNTRY MAY, DEPENDING ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES, BE MORE THAN ARTICLE 36 OF THE TREATY PERMITS IF HEALTH REQUIREMENTS MAY BE SATISFIED AS EFFECTIVELY BY MEASURES WHICH ARE NOT SO RESTRICTIVE OF INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE. IT IS FOR THE NATIONAL COURT TO EXAMINE WHETHER AND TO WHAT EXTENT THE DETAILED MEASURES OF CONTROL APPLIED BY THE NATIONAL AUTHORITIES ARE CAPABLE OF CONSTITUTING AN IMPERMISSIBLE RESTRICTION ON INTRA-COMMUN
ITY TRADE.

3. AN INSPECTION LEVY FOR HEALTH INSPECTION OF IMPORTED FISH DETERMINED AND IMPOSED WITHOUT OBJECTIVE JUSTIFICATION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARTICULAR CRITERIA CONCERNING THE NATURE OR CONDITION OF THE GOODS, WHICH ARE NOT COMPARABLE TO THE CRITERIA USED IN FIXING THE PECUNIARY CHARGES ON DOMESTIC PRODUCTS OF THE SAME KIND, MUST BE CONSIDERED AS A CHARGE HAVING AN EFFECT EQUIVALENT TO A CUSTOMS DUTY, PROHIBITED BY ARTICLES 9, 12 AND 13 OF THE EEC TREATY.

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