19According to settled case-law, the concept of ‘force majeure’ for the purposes of the agricultural regulations is not limited to absolute impossibility but must be understood in the sense of abnormal and unforeseeable circumstances, outside the control of the operator concerned, the consequences of which, in spite of the exercise of all due care, could not have been avoided (see, in particular, Scbwarzwaldmilch, cited above, page 386; Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, cited above, paragraph 23; Köster, cited above, paragraph 38; An Bord Bainne Cooperative and Compagnie Inter-Agra, cited above, paragraph 11; Huygen, cited above, paragraph 31, and Case C-347/93 Boterlux [1994] ECR I-3933, paragraph 34).
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