Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (28/84)

Judgment of 3 Oct 1985

law://eu/cjeu/1984/c-28-84/para_12@2026-11-13

12Although the directives came into force over a period of time from 1970 to 1979 they form a coherent system, as is clear from the first two recitals in their respective preambles. According to those recitals the common objective of the directives is to increase agricultural productivity by promoting the quality of animal production by means of the use of ‘appropriate good-quality feedingstuff s’. Within that framework the specific purpose of the additives directive and the undesirable substances directive is to define those aspects which require particular supervision on account, in particular, of their effect on animal or human health (see the fifth to eleventh recitals in the preamble to the additives directive and the third and eighth recitals in the preamble to the undesirable substances directive). Each of those directives provides for a Community procedure for laying down special rules, whether in the form of maximum or minimum contents or in the form of prohibitions, which are contained in the annexes to those directives (see Article 6 of the additives directive, as amended by Council Directive 73/103/EEC of 28 April 1973, Official Journal 1973, L 124, p. 17, and Article 6 of the undesirable substances directive).

Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (28/84)

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