Antillean Rice Mills NV, Trading & Shipping Co. Ter Beek BV, European Rice Brokers AVV, Alesie Curaçao NV and Guyana Investments AVV v Commission of the European Communities (T-480/93, T-483/93)

Judgment of 14 Sept 1995

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86In that regard, the Council states, first, that it is necessary to define the scope of the words ‘on the basis of the experience acquired and of the principles set out in this Treaty’, used in Article 136 to define the limits of its powers. The fact that the Council is to adopt a decision relating to the association of the OCT ‘on the basis of the experience acquired’ implies that it must take into consideration the experience acquired in the application of previous decisions and relations with the ACP States, whereas the ‘principles laid down in this Treaty’ are not merely those set out in Article 131 but also include the principles enshrined in Articles 1 to 7 of the Treaty, together with the objectives of the common agricultural policy or the general principles recognized in the case-law, such as the principle of Community preference (Case 5/67 Beus v Hauptzollamt München [1968] ECR 83, at p. 97 and 98; Case C-46/89 SICA and SIPEFEL v Commission [1990] ECR I-3621, paragraph 29).

Antillean Rice Mills NV, Trading & Shipping Co. Ter Beek BV, European Rice Brokers AVV, Alesie Curaçao NV and Guyana Investments AVV v Commission of the European Communities (T-480/93, T-483/93)

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