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OPINION OF MR ADVOCATE-GENERAL TRABUCCHI DELIVERED ON 27 NOVEMBER 1973 ( 1 ) Mr President, Members of the Court, The reply which the Court gives to the question referred by the Berlin Finanzgericht and which is concerned with the question of the application in 1971, as regards imports of coffee from Guinea to the German Federal Republic, of the preferential scheme applying to imports to the Community of goods from African Malagasy States under the Convention of Association of 29 July 1969 between the Community and those States, will inevitably have political repercussions. However, given the precise nature of the terms of the question for interpretation raised by the Finanzgericht, we can exclude any thought that a case of this nature leaves room for an interpreter to take account of considerations of expediency. We are not called on here to resolve the doubts which may exist as regards the precise legal form of the Republic of Guinea's position vis-à-vis the Community. Our task is more modest. And in fact the possible solutions to the more general problem concerning the current position of Guinea in its relations with the Community could not in any case be reflected in the tenor of the reply to be given to the reference by the German court on the subject of import duties: a ruling which must be clear and unequivocal. By Article 131 of the EEC Treaty the Member States agreed to associate with the Community the non-European Countries and Territories which have special ... Прочетете още