Judgment of the Court of 11 July 1974.

Procureur du Roi v Benoît and Gustave Dassonville.

Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunal de première instance de Bruxelles - Belgium.

Case 8-74.


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Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:1974:82
11/07/1974 Dassonville
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:1974:82
11/07/1974 Dassonville
Abstract
ECLI:EU:C:1974:82
11/07/1974 Dassonville
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:1974:66
20/06/1974 Dassonville
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Reports of Cases

1974 00837

Greek 1974/00411 Portuguese 1974/00423 Spanish 1974/00383 Swedish II/00343 Finnish II/00349

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
B European Community (EEC/EC)
  B-02 Free movement of goods
    B-02.02 Prohibition of quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect in trade between Member States
      B-02.02.02 Measures having equivalent effect
        B-02.02.02.01 Definition
B European Community (EEC/EC)
  B-02 Free movement of goods
    B-02.02 Prohibition of quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect in trade between Member States
      B-02.02.02 Measures having equivalent effect
        B-02.02.02.05 Rules concerning the production, denomination and marketing of products
B European Community (EEC/EC)
  B-07 Competition
    B-07.01 Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
      B-07.01.01 Prohibition of agreements, decisions and concerted practices
        B-07.01.01.01 Agreements of undertakings, decisions by associations of undertakings and concerted practices
B European Community (EEC/EC)
  B-07 Competition
    B-07.01 Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
      B-07.01.03 Exemption from the prohibition
        B-07.01.03.03 Exclusive agreements


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 08/02/1974

Date of the Opinion

  • 20/06/1974

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

11/07/1974


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 30 from 19.03.1974, p.33

Judgment: OJ C 114 from 27.09.1974, p.27

Name of the parties

Dassonville

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Tummers, Arlette ; Carpay-Herve, Michèle: L'arrêt relatif aux certificats "Scotch Whisky", Revue de droit intellectuel : l'ingénieur-conseil 1974 p.297-309 (FR)
  2. Slot, P.J.: S.E.W. ; Sociaal-economische wetgeving 1975 p.130-136 (NL)
  3. Joliet, René: EEC Law and Appellations of Origin: The Scotch Whisky Case, The Modern Law Review 1975 p.200-206 (EN)
  4. De Montblanc, Laure: Revue de jurisprudence commerciale 1975 p.195-206 (FR)
  5. De Caluwé, A.: Jurisprudence commerciale de Belgique 1975 p.94-99 (FR)
  6. Wellinghausen, Walter: Europarecht 1975 p.322-326 (DE)
  7. Slot, P.J.: Annotaties Hof van Justitie EG (Ed. W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink - Zwolle) 1995 p.156-161 (NL)
  8. Banu, Mihai: Libera circulație a bunurilor. Art. 28 CE. Măsuri cu efect echivalent. Vânzare ambulantă. Încheierea de abonamente pentru periodice. Autorizație prealabilă, Revista românã de drept comunitar 2006 nº 01 p.133-137 (RO)
  9. Rosas, Allan: Life after Dassonville and Cassis: evolution but no revolution, The past and future of EU law: the classics of EU law revisited on the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty (Hart Publishing, Oxford) 2010, p. 433-446 (EN)
  10. Nicolaïdis, Kalypso: Kir forever? - The journey of a political scientist in the landscape of mutual recognition, The past and future of EU law: the classics of EU law revisited on the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty (Hart Publishing, Oxford) 2010, p. 447-455 (EN)
  11. Bernard, Nicolas: On the art of not mixing one's drinks: Dassonville and Cassis de Dijon revisited, The past and future of EU law: the classics of EU law revisited on the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty (Hart Publishing, Oxford) 2010, p. 456-464 (EN)
  12. Regan, Donald H.: An outsider's view of Dassonville and Cassis de Dijon: on interpretation and policy, The past and future of EU law: the classics of EU law revisited on the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty (Hart Publishing, Oxford) 2010, p. 465-473 (EN)
  13. De Vries, S.A.: Over Schotse whisky, Franse likeur en ... koffie, Het recht van de Europese Unie in 50 klassieke arresten (Ed. Boom Juridische Uitgevers - Den Haag) 2010 p.90-97 (NL)
  14. X: Europees Recht 1963-1979; Jurisprudentie en Annotaties (Ed. Ars Aequi Libri - Utrecht) 2012 p.34-35 (NL)
  15. Lember, Priit: Horisontaalsed eesmärgid ja hankelepingu esemega mitteseotud hindamiskriteeriumid riigihankemenetluses, Juridica: Tartu Ülikooli õigusteaduskonna ajakiri 2013 nº IX p.635-647 (ET)
  16. Kovar, Robert: De l'arrêt Dassonville à l'arrêt Keck et Mithouard, Revue trimestrielle de droit européen 2014 p.859-869 (FR)
  17. Spitaleri, Fabio: Unité et fragmentation de la notion d'entrave : l'adoption de l'approche Keck au-delà de la libre circulation des marchandises, Revue trimestrielle de droit européen 2014 p.871-878 (FR)
  18. Pošćić, Ana: RAZVOJ SUDSKE PRAKSE NAKON PREDMETA „KECK“ U PODRUČJU SLOBODE KRETANJA ROBE, Pravni vjesnik 2014 n° 3-4 p.101-132 (HR)
  19. Sap, Jan Willem ; Smit, Marije: Ars Aequi Jurisprudentie Europeese Recht 2015 p.34-35 (NL)
  20. Papp, Mónika: Kivel szemben tisztességtelen? Gondolatok az európai uniós fogyasztói képről és az Európai Unió Bírósága által biztosított jogvédelem szintjéről, Versenytükör 2016 1. szám p.28-37 (HU)
  21. Leible, Stefan: Neue juristische Wochenschrift 2017 p.3057-3058 (DE)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Tribunal de première instance de Bruxelles - Belgium

Subject-matter

  • Free movement of goods
  • - Quantitative restrictions
  • - Measures having equivalent effect
  • Competition
  • - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  • - Exclusive agreements

Provisions of national law referred to

Arrêté royal n° 57 du 20 décembre 1934 relatif aux eaux-de-vie

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

Information not available

Judge-Rapporteur

Mackenzie Stuart

Advocate General

Trabucchi

Language(s) of the Case

  • French

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • Italian