50Finally, Milk Marque and the NFU submit that activities undertaken in the context of a common organisation of the market are subject to the application of competition law only by virtue of the first paragraph of Article 36 EC, which acknowledges that the common agricultural policy takes precedence over the objectives of the Treaty in the field of competition (Case C-280/93 Germany v Council [1994] ECR I-4973, paragraph 61, Case C-311/94 IJssel-Vliet [1996] ECR I-5023, paragraph 31), and of Regulation No 26. The parallel application of national and Community competition law would produce conflicts because the operation of Community competition law must take account of the objectives of the common agricultural policy and accordingly subjects agricultural cooperatives to the regime established by Regulation No 26. The operation of national competition law, on the other hand, is not so limited and allows for the adoption of measures which cannot lawfully be taken under Regulation No 26.
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