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Agriculture - Common organisation of the markets - Raw tobacco - Disposal of stocks held by intervention agencies - Commission's discretion - Scope - Consequences

(Commission Regulation No 3389/73)

Summary

$$Where the Commission decides, in the context of the arrangements for the disposal of tobacco held by intervention agencies, not to award a particular contract because of the risk of disturbance of the market, it enjoys a wide power for the assessment of complex economic situations. The decision whether or not to accept a bid is not therefore a simple and mechanical administrative operation but calls for the appraisal of a complex economic situation. In those circumstances, even decisions which may subsequently prove to be open to criticism do not necessarily cause the Community to incur liability in the absence of a manifest error of assessment on the part of the institution.