9The Court has consistently held that the division of production and sales activities within a group made up of legally distinct companies can in no way alter the fact that the group is a single economic entity which organizes in that way activities that in other cases are carried on by what is, also from a legal point of view, a single entity (Case 250/85 Brother v Council [1988] ECR 5683, paragraph 16; and in Case C-175/87 Matsushita v Council [1992] ECR I-1409, paragraph 12).
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