Judgment_paragraph 2.5.3.4. · Jongeneel Kaas BV and others v State of the Netherlands and Stichting Centraal Orgaan Zuivelcontrole (237/82)

2.5.3.4.Rules on designation accompanied by requirements relating to qualityThe Commission first refers to the case-law of the Court in relation to appellations of origin and indications of origin (judgments of 20 February 1975 in Case 12/74, Commission v Germany, [1975] ECR 181, and of 12 October 1978 in Case 13/78, Eggers v Freie Hansestadt Bremen, [1978] ECR 1935) and also to the judgment of 24 November 1982 in Case 249/81 (Commission v Ireland, [1982] ECR 4005).Those cases seek to prohibit such rules where their object or effect is to discriminate or to protect domestic markets or to promote the sale of domestic products and thus to place imported products at a disadvantage. It is for the national court to determine how far the rules in question have such consequences.