69The Commission also maintains that the goods mobilisation measures put out to tender are carried out in large part by the intervention agencies of the Member States and not directly by the Commission itself. Furthermore, as a rule the national authorities act in their own name and on their own responsibility, not merely as the Commission's agents or representatives. Regulations Nos 111/1999 and 2802/98 come under the common_agricultural policy which is characterised by a method of administration making extensive call upon the Member States. Thus, it is apparent from Article 6 of Regulation No 2802/98 that the ‘Guarantee’ Section of the EAGGF bears the costs connected with the implementation of the mobilisation measures. In those circumstances, it is for the Member States to ensure the implementation in their territory of the Community legislation (Joined Cases 205/82 to 215/82 Deutsche Milchkontor [1983] ECR 2633). If the Commission had wished to move away from that approach and confine the national authorities to the role of mere agents, it would have had to make that clear in Regulation No 111/1999, which, it claims, it did not do.
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