Opinion of Mr Advocate General Jacobs delivered on 26 April 1989. # REWE-Handelsgesellschaft Nord mbH v Überwachungsstelle für Milcherzeugnisse und Handelsklassen. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Bundesverwaltungsgericht - Germany. # Agriculture - Water content of frozen poultry - Conditions under which checks are conducted. # Case 88/88.

Opinion of the Advocate-General

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Mr Advocate General F . G . Jacobs delivered his Opinion on 26 April 1989 . (* ) He proposed that the Court should rule as follows :

"Article 3(2 ) of Council Regulation ( EEC ) No . 2967/76 does not prohibit national rules whereby any batch of goods from which a sample has been taken must be withheld from the market until the inspection procedure is completed . Such national rules need not specify any time-limit for a suspension from the market; but any such suspension must not exceed the time which is necessary for the purposes of an effective system of inspection ."

(*) Original language : English .