15That interpretation is borne out by Article 4(1) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2182/77 of 30 September 1977 on detailed rules of application for the sale of frozen beef from intervention stocks and intended for processing within the Community and amending Regulation (EEC) No 1687/76 (Official Journal 1976 L 251, p. 60), according to which ‘a security calculated to guarantee that the products will be processed shall be lodged with the competent authority of the Member State where the processing is to take place’. It would not be in accordance with the principle of proportionality if the purchaser were to bear the loss of the security in the event that the processing could not take place owing to the existence of latent defects which could not be detected by him by prior inspection.
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