50In the first place, the Commission maintains that the law applicable in this case is neither obscure nor complex. Regulation No 1359/95, mentioned by the applicants, constitutes only a regulation amending general regulation No 2658/87, concerning the tariff and statistical nomenclature, and was purely-declaratory in scope (Opinion of Advocate General Roemer in Case 9/73 Schlüter [1973] ECR 1135, at p. 1163). That regulation was clearly not intended to open a new tariff quota or to remove the requirement for an import licence, that requirement being governed by Regulation No 774/94 and the implementing regulation No 1431/94, Article 1 of which had required since June 1994, more than a year before the disputed imports, that an import licence be presented.
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