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Agriculture - Common organization of the markets - National measures - Restrictions on exports - Incompatible with rules of Community law

Summary

The common organizations of the markets are based on the concept of an open market to which every producer has free access under genuinely competitive conditions and the functioning of which is regulated solely by the instruments provided for in those organizations. In particular, in sectors covered by a common organization of the market, and a fortiori when that organization is based, as in the present case, on a common price system, Member States can no longer take action through unilateral measures affecting the machinery of price-formation established under that organization. It follows that any intervention by a Member State designed to impose restrictions, for the benefit of one single body, on exports effected by other traders is incompatible with the principle of the common organization of the markets.