132The restrictions on supplies for stock to leasing companies are intended to prevent circumvention of the prohibition on supplying to resellers which, moreover, reflects the Commission's definition of the aim of Regulation No 1475/95. In taking the view that the restrictions on those supplies were not exempt under Regulation No 1475/95, the Commission fails to have regard to the principles laid down by the Court of Justice in relation to Regulation No 123/85 in Volkswagen and VAG Leasing, cited in paragraph 41 above, and in Case C-70/93 Bayerische Motorenwerke [1995] ECR I-3439. That case-law provides that leasing companies are to be classified as resellers where they do not confine themselves to purchasing vehicles in order to satisfy requests from their customers but build up stock ‘which they offer to customers attracted in that way’.
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