27As regards, first, the derogation under Article 55 EC, read in conjunction with the first paragraph of Article 45 EC, the primary role in the system of inspection of organically-farmed products, in which private bodies are cast, arises, first, from the fact that, under Article 9 of Regulation No 2092/91, the Member States may entrust the function of inspection to a public authority and, secondly, from the special powers which are involved in the carrying-out of that activity and can affect the rights of the operators inspected. The fact that those bodies cannot, themselves, enforce the decisions they adopt is not decisive. On the contrary, the mandatory nature of their decisions, which can be challenged only by judicial proceedings, is a factor which militates in favour of their being directly and specifically connected with the exercise of official authority, as follows from the Court's case-law, in particular, Case 2/74 Reyners [1974] ECR 631, paragraph 43, and Case C-42/92 Thijssen [1993] ECR I-4047, paragraph 8.
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