2.6.2.The Netherlands Government contends that there can be no question of a breach of fundamental rules on the free movement of goods. Article 34 has been interpreted by the Court as prohibiting specific restrictions which are imposed on export patterns and so establish a difference in treatment between the domestic trade of a Member State and its export trade (judgments in Cases 15/79, Groenveld v Produktschap voor Vee en Vlees, [1979] ECR 3049, Case 155/80, Oebel, [1981] ECR 1993 and Joined Cases 141 to 143/81, Holdijk, [1982] ECR 1299). The Netherlands regulations on quality contain a collection of objective rules applicable to exports and domestic trade without distinction.Nor can there be any question of impeding imports in the sense of the judgment in REWE-Zentral. The only conditions applicable to imported cheese are those which relate to public health and fair trading.
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