30In that regard, having determined that the national measures at issue in the main proceedings constitute a measure having equivalent effect to a quantitative restriction within the meaning of Article 28 EC, the Commission refers by analogy, as regards the application of Article 30 EC, to the Court's case-law on additives (Joined Cases C-13/91 and C-113/91 Debus [1992] ECR I-3617, and Case C-344/90 Commission v France [1992] ECR I-4719), from which it emerges that the determination of whether an additive is necessary, which must be carried out under the principle of proportionality, must focus on the risk it poses to health, taking account of both the results of international scientific research, in particular the work of the Scientific Committee for Food and of the Codex Alimentarius Committee of the FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation) and the WHO (World Health Organisation), and the eating habits in the importing Member State, as well as the existence of a genuine need, in particular a technological need.
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