Judgment_paragraph 38 · Commission of the European Communities v Ireland (C-30/99)

38In several cases the Court has held that an obligation to maintain a representative in the Member State of importation constitutes a measure having equivalent effect to a quantitative restriction and is a breach of Article 30 of the Treaty (Case 155/82 Commission v Belgium [1983] ECR 531 and Case 247/81 Commission v Germany [1984] ECR 1111).