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OPINION OF MR ADVOCATE-GENERAL WARNER DELIVERED ON 18 JUNE 1975 My Lords, This case comes to the Court by way of a reference for a preliminary ruling by the Verwaltungsgericht of Cologne. The Plaintiff in the proceedings before that Court is the Firma I. Schroeder KG. For technical reasons, into which I need not enter, there are in form two Defendants: the Oberstadtdirektor (Chief Administratíve Officer) of the City of Cologne and the City of Cologne itself, represented by its Oberstadtdirektor. In substance the Defendant is the City of Cologne. In the proceedings before the Verwaltungsgericht there also appears the Vertreter des öffendichen Interesses (the Representative of the Public Interest) attached to that Court This functionary sought to submit written Observations to this Court, but did so out of time. They were accordingly rejected and I say no more about them; The facts, which are, to my mind, important, do not appear from the order for reference of the Verwaltungsgericht Nor are they mentioned in the Plaintiff's Observations. I cull them from the Observations of the Commission and of the Defendant, which have not, in so far as they set out the facts, been challenged. It seems that, between December 1972 and June 1973, the Plaintiff imported into the Federal Republic of Germany 18 consignments of tinned meat from France and 8 from Hungary. On each occasion the goods were, as required by the relevant German legislation, subjected to a public health examination to check their fitness for human consumption. ... Прочетете още