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THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY SAKSAMAA LIITVABARIIK
1. Name and nr of the case - 120/78; Cassis de Dijon case (1979)
2. The parties - ReweZentral AG (HAVING ITS REGISTERED OFFICE IN COLOGNE) v
Bundesmonopolverwaltung für Branntwein ( FEDERAL MONOPOLY
ADMINISTRATION FOR SPIRITS ).
3. Relevant problems and events (no details!) An importer was prohibited by the
German authorities from importing Cassis de Dijon, a French liqueur,
into Germany, on the grounds that its alchoholic strength was too low.
German law prevented the sale of any drink with an alchohol content
between 15% and 25%.
The importer argued that the German legal measure was in
contravention of Art. 30 of the EC Treaty, being a measure equivalent to
a quantitative restriction on importation. The German authorities argued
that this measure was not concerned with country of origin at all, and
would have applied to domestic as well as to imported products.
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