Judgment_paragraph 75 · H. Jippes, Afdeling Groningen van de Nederlandse Vereniging tot Bescherming van Dieren and Afdeling Assen en omstreken van de Nederlandse Vereniging tot Bescherming van Dieren v Minister van Landbouw, Natuurbeheer en Visserij (C-189/01)

75Similarly, Article 30 EC refers to the ‘life of... animals’ only by way of exception to the prohibition of measures having equivalent effect, and there is nothing in the Court's case-law to indicate that the Court has accepted any plea of justification based on that provision (Case C-169/89 Van den Burg [1990] ECR I-2143; Case C-5/94 Hedley Lomas [1996] ECR I-2553; Compassion in World Farming, cited above; and Case C-350/97 Monsees [1999] ECR 1-2921).