WITH EFFECT FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS NOTIFIED TO THE GOVERNMENT TO WHICH IT WAS ADDRESSED CANNOT BE UPHELD .
13 IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO CONSIDER THE QUESTION WHETHER, IN THIS CASE, THE COMMISSION HAD THE POWER PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 93 ( 2 ) AND ( 3 ) TO REQUIRE THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT TO DISCONTINUE THE TARIFF IN QUESTION IMMEDIATELY AND WITHOUT DELAY; IT NEED MERELY BE POINTED OUT THAT DECISION 85/215 CONTAINS NO SUCH OBLIGATION .
14 IN ARTICLE 1, NO MENTION IS MADE OF ANY PERIOD WITHIN WHICH THE TARIFF IN QUESTION MUST BE DISCONTINUED; HOWEVER, ARTICLE 2 REQUIRES THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT TO INFORM THE COMMISSION "BEFORE 15 MARCH 1985" OF THE ACTION TAKEN, AND THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT THEREFORE HAD UNTIL THAT DATE TO ADOPT THE NECESSARY MEASURES .
15 IT IS THEREFORE NECESSARY ONLY TO EXAMINE THE COMMISSION' S ALTERNATIVE SUBMISSION .
16 IN ORDER TO REBUT THAT ARGUMENT THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT SUBMITS THAT DECISION 85/215 DID NOT OBLIGE IT TO DISCONTINUE THE AID WITHIN A SPECIFIC PERIOD AND THAT THE DATE OF 15 MARCH 1985 WAS MERELY THE DATE BY WHICH CERTAIN INFORMATION WAS TO BE PROVIDED . FURTHERMORE, THAT TIME-LIMIT WAS EXTENDED BY THE COMMISSION IN ITS TELEX MESSAGE OF 8 MAY 1985, FOLLOWING THE ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE COURT OF 3 MAY 1985 DISMISSING THE APPLICATION FOR SUSPENSION OF THE DECISION' S OPERATION, IN WHICH THE COMMISSION ASKED THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT TO INFORM IT "AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND AT THE LATEST WITHIN TWO WEEKS" OF THE MEASURES ACTUALLY TAKEN TO IMPLEMENT DECISION 85/215 .
17 THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS, MOREOVER, THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ILLOGICAL TO DISCONTINUE THE TARIFF IN QUESTION BEFORE A DETERMINATION HAD BEEN MADE ON THE APPLICATION SUBMITTED IN JOINED CASES 67, 68 AND 70/85 FOR SUSPENSION OF THE DECISION' S OPERATION . IT POINTS OUT THAT FOLLOWING THE ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE COURT OF 3 MAY 1985, REFERRED TO ABOVE, A NEW TARIFF WAS ESTABLISHED BY A CONTRACT CONCLUDED ON 4 JUNE 1985 . IN ITS VIEW, TECHNICAL AND LEGAL DIFFICULTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW TARIFF PREVENTED IT FROM TAKING ACTION SOONER .
18 THE ARGUMENTS OF THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT CANNOT BE UPHELD .
19 THE FACT THAT ARTICLE 2 OF DECISION 85/215 FIXES THE DATE OF 15 MARCH 1985 AS THE DATE BY WHICH THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT MUST INFORM THE COMMISSION OF THE ACTION TAKEN TO COMPLY WITH THE DECISION CLEARLY IMPLIES THAT THAT WAS ALSO THE DATE BY WHICH THAT GOVERNMENT WAS TO DISCONTINUE THE AID CONCERNED BY THE DECISION .
20 CONTRARY TO THE ARGUMENTS OF THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT, THE COMMISSION' S TELEX MESSAGE OF 8 MAY 1985 DID NOT SET A NEW TIME-LIMIT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF DECISION 85/215 . IN THAT TELEX MESSAGE THE COMMISSION SIMPLY REQUESTED THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT TO INFORM IT "AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND WITHIN TWO WEEKS AT THE LATEST OF THE MEASURES ACTUALLY TAKEN IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE