Keywords

• Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
• Free movement of goods
• Articles 28 EC and 30 EC
• Measure having equivalent effect
• Quantitative restriction on imports
• Prior authorisation scheme
• Processing aids, and foodstuffs whose preparation involved the use of processing aids, from other Member States where they are lawfully manufactured and/or marketed
• Procedure allowing economic operators to obtain the entry of such substances on a ‘positive list’
• Mutual recognition clause
• National legislative context creating a situation of legal uncertainty for economic operators.