38Whilst that regulation was not applicable at the material time, the Commission none the less considers that the paragraph cited simply expresses a general principle of law already in force in the Community legal order. It points out that this general legal principle of abuse of rights exists in almost all the Member States and has already been applied in the case-law of the Court of Justice, although the Court has not expressly recognised it as a general principle of Community law. In that connection the Commission cites Case 125/76 Cremer v BALM [1977] ECR 1593; Case 250/80 Töpfer and Others [1981] ECR 2465; Case C-8/92 General Milk Products v Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Jonas [1993] ECR I-779; and the Opinion in Case C-441/93 Pafitis and Others v Trapeza Kentrikis Ellados [1996] ECR I-1347.
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