, AND TO THAT EXTENT THE SUBMISSIONS MENTIONED ABOVE MUST BE REJECTED .
5 MOREOVER , THE APPLICANTS MAY NOT PLEAD THE ILLEGALITY OF THE PROVISIONS OF A GENERAL DECISION UNLESS THE CONTESTED INDIVIDUAL DECISION IS BASED ON THOSE PROVISIONS ( JUDGMENT OF 28 . 10 . 1981 , CASES 275/80 AND 24/81 KRUPP ( 1981 ) ECR 2489 ). THE PROVISIONS OF DECISION NO 1831/81/ECSC WHICH THE APPLICANTS ALLEGE ARE ILLEGAL DEAL NOT WITH THE IMPOSITION OF A FINE BUT SOLELY WITH THE FIXING AND ADJUSTMENT OF QUOTAS .
6 THE APPLICANTS MAY NOT RELY ON THE ARGUMENT THAT THEY HAD ALREADY EXCEEDED THE QUOTAS ALLOCATED TO THEM , IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY THE FACT THAT , LACKING A LEGAL INTEREST , THEY DID NOT WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED PERIOD CONTEST THE INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS FIXING THEIR QUOTAS OR REFUSING TO ADJUST THEM . THE APPLICANTS WERE IN NO WAY AUTHORIZED UNILATERALLY TO EXCEED THE PRODUCTION QUOTAS IMPOSED ON THEM BY THE COMMISSION .
7 FINALLY , THE COURT NOTES THAT IT HAS ALREADY HELD IN ITS JUDGMENT OF 31 MARCH 1965 ( CASE 21/64 MACCHIORLATI DALMAS ( 1965 ) ECR 175 ) THAT THE STRICT TIME-LIMIT FOR INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS FOR A DECLARATION THAT A PROVISION IS VOID IS IN KEEPING WITH THE NECESSITY TO PREVENT THE LEGALITY OF ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS BEING CALLED IN QUESTION INDEFINITELY . HAVING REGARD TO THOSE CONSIDERATIONS , THE SUBMISSIONS REFERRED TO MUST BE DECLARED INADMISSIBLE IN THEIR ENTIRETY .
8 FOR THE SAME REASONS THE SECOND SUBMISSION IS INADMISSIBLE IN SO FAR AS IT ALLEGES THAT THE COMMISSION FAILED TO REPLY TO CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE REQUESTS FOR ADJUSTMENT OF THE APPLICANTS ' QUOTAS FOR THE THIRD AND FOURTH QUARTERS OF 1981 AND FAILED TO STATE ADEQUATE REASONS FOR ITS DECISION ADJUSTING THE QUOTAS FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1981 . IT IS , HOWEVER , ADMISSIBLE IN SO FAR AS IT IS BASED ON THE INADEQUACY OF THE STATEMENT OF REASONS FOR THE DECISION OF 24 MARCH 1983 CONTESTED IN THIS ACTION .
9 IT MUST , HOWEVER , BE POINTED OUT THAT THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE ARGUMENTS TO WHICH THE APPLICANTS CLAIM THE COMMISSION DID NOT REPLY CONCERNED THE FIXING OF THE QUOTAS AND NOT THE IMPOSITION OF THE FINE . NO COMPLAINT MAY BE MADE AGAINST THE COMMISSION FOR FAILING TO REPLY TO POINTS EXTRANEOUS TO THE DECISION IN QUESTION . IN REGARD TO THE OTHER ARGUMENTS , THE COURT CONSIDERS THAT THE COMMISSION STATED IN ITS DECISION THE MAIN REASONS WHICH LED IT TO IMPOSE A FINE ON THE BOEL GROUP FOR EXCEEDING ITS QUOTAS AND THE SECOND SUBMISSION MUST THEREFORE ALSO BE REJECTED .
10 IN THEIR EIGHTH SUBMISSION THE APPLICANTS COMPLAIN THAT THE COMMISSION FAILED TO REPLY TO THE LETTER OF 28 OCTOBER 1981 IN WHICH THE USINES GUSTAVE BOEL SA REQUESTED THE ADJUSTMENT OF ITS PRODUCTION QUOTAS AND FINISHED BY SAYING THAT , UNLESS THE COMMISSION INDICATED OTHERWISE , IT WOULD CONSIDER THE COMMISSION TO BE IN