29It is also settled case-law that the establishment of a common organisation of the agricultural markets does not prevent the Member States from applying national rules intended to attain an objective relating to the general interest other than those covered by the common organisation even if those rules are likely to have an effect on the functioning of the common market in the sector concerned (see, to that effect, Joined Cases 141/81 to 143/81 Holdijk [1982] ECR 1299, paragraph 12, Case 118/86 Nertsvoederfabriek Nederland [1987] ECR 3883, paragraph 12, and Case C-309/96 Annibaldi [1997] ECR I-7493, paragraph 20).
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