18However, Article 7 of the Directive, like Article 30 EC, is intended specifically to reconcile the fundamental interest in protecting trade mark rights with the fundamental interest in free movement of goods between Member States, so that those two provisions, which pursue the same result, must be interpreted in the same way. The Court's case-law under Article 36 of the EEC Treaty (subsequently Article 36 of the EC Treaty and now, after amendment, Article 30 EC) must therefore be taken as the basis for determining whether, under Article 7(2) of the Directive, a trade mark proprietor may oppose the marketing of repackaged products to which the trade mark has been reaffixed (see Bristol-Myers Squibb and Others, paragraphs 40 and 41).
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