Judgment_paragraph 19 · Milk Marketing Board of England and Wales v Cricket St. Thomas Estate (C-372/88)

19As the Court stated in its judgment of 5 December 1967 in Case 19/67 Sociale Verzekeringsbank v Van der Vecht [1967] ECR 345, the need for a uniform interpretation of Community regulations means that a particular provision should not be considered in isolation but in cases of doubt should be interpreted and applied in the light of the other languages. In its judgment of 27 October 1977 in Case 30/77 Regina v Boucbereau [1977] ECR 1999, the Court also stated that the different language versions of a Community text must be given a uniform interpretation and hence, in the case of divergence between the language versions, the provision in question must be interpreted by reference to the purpose and general scheme of the rules of which it forms a part.

Milk Marketing Board of England and Wales v Cricket St. Thomas Estate (C-372/88)

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