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OPINION OF MR ADVOCATE-GENERAL DUTHEILLET DE LAMOTHE DELIVERED ON 17 FEBRUARY 1971 ( 1 ) Mr President, Members of the Court, Since the entry into force of the Treaty of Rome and since the creation of this Court, the Lütticke Company, which is an important German import-export firm, has often shown before the Court its faith in Community law. Those commenting on the Court's judgments and legal writers in general must be grateful to it for having been, probably, above all other private firms from Member States, the one which has brought before the Court the greatest number of applications giving rise to the greatest number of judgments on the implementation of the Treaty of Rome. It is certain in fact that Lütticke has discovered, more rapidly than many others, all the possibilities which the provisions of this Treaty and Community law deriving from it might have for importers and exporters and has often, and almost systematically, sought to raise questions of Community law in the disputes which it has had with the German tax and customs authorities. In the present action it attacks the Community authorities directly and asks the Court to order the Commission to pay it substantial compensation. It is first necessary, I believe, to place this dispute in the category of those in relation to which it is in reality a development and, I hope, the final development. As you know, the authors of the Treaty of Rome realized from the start that the provisions relating ... Прочетете още