RESULTING FROM, ON THE ONE HAND, THE DEVALUATION OF THE FRENCH FRANC AND, ON THE OTHER, THE TEMPORARY WIDENING OF THE MARGINS OF FLUCTUATION FOR THE GERMAN AND NETHERLANDS CURRENCIES ARE SUFFICIENTLY DIFFERENT TO RULE OUT THE ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION .
42 FURTHERMORE, SINCE THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY IS, ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 39 ( 1 ) ( B ) OF THE TREATY, " TO ENSURE A FAIR STANDARD OF LIVING FOR THE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY, IN PARTICULAR BY INCREASING THE INDIVIDUAL EARNINGS OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN AGRICULTURE " THERE MAY BE GREATER JUSTIFICATION FOR SUPPORTING THE EXPORTATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS TO THIRD COUNTRIES RATHER THAN THE IMPORTATION OF THOSE PRODUCTS .
43 THE COMPLAINT OF DISCRIMINATION MUST THEREFORE BE DISMISSED .
44 D - IT FOLLOWS FROM ALL THE FOREGOING CONSIDERATIONS THAT THE CONTESTED PROVISIONS OF REGULATIONS NOS 1670/69 AND 1505/70 ARE NOT VITIATED BY ILLEGALITY AND IT WOULD, THEREFORE, SERVE NO PURPOSE TO EXAMINE THE OTHER CONDITIONS GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY FOR A WRONGFUL ACT .
2 . THE SUBMISSION BASED ON LIABILITY IN THE ABSENCE OF ILLEGALITY .
45 THE APPLICANTS CLAIM THAT THE COMMUNITY INCURS LIABILITY EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF ILLEGALITY BECAUSE THE APPLICANTS HAVE SUFFERED " UNUSUAL AND SPECIAL DAMAGE " OWING TO THE FACT THAT THEY WERE TREATED LESS FAVOURABLY THAN, FIRST, IMPORTERS FROM MEMBER STATES OTHER THAN FRANCE AND, SECONDLY, THAN GERMAN AND NETHERLANDS EXPORTERS .
46 ANY LIABILITY FOR A VALID LEGISLATIVE MEASURE IS INCONCEIVABLE IN A SITUATION LIKE THAT IN THE PRESENT CASE SINCE THE MEASURES ADOPTED BY THE COMMISSION WERE ONLY INTENDED TO ALLEVIATE, IN THE GENERAL ECONOMIC INTEREST, THE CONSEQUENCES WHICH RESULTED IN PARTICULAR FOR ALL FRENCH IMPORTERS FROM THE NATIONAL DECISION TO DEVALUE THE FRANC .
47 CONSEQUENTLY, THE SUBMISSION IS UNFOUNDED .
Decision on costs
48 UNDER ARTICLE 69 ( 2 ) OF THE RULES OF PROCEDURE, THE UNSUCCESSFUL PARTY SHALL BE ORDERED TO PAY THE COSTS .
45 THE APPLICANTS HAVE FAILED IN THEIR SUBMISSIONS .
50 THEY MUST, THEREFORE, BE ORDERED TO BEAR THE COSTS .
Operative part
THE COURT
HEREBY :
1 . DISMISSES THE APPLICATIONS FOR ANNULMENT AS INADMISSIBLE;
2 . DISMISSES THE CLAIMS FOR COMPENSATION AS UNFOUNDED;
3 . ORDERS THE APPLICANTS TO BEAR THE COSTS OF THE ACTION .