REGULATIONS AND OTHER RULES OF COMMUNITY LAW .
6 STRICT COMPLIANCE WITH THIS OBLIGATION IS AN INDISPENSABLE CONDITION OF SIMULTANEOUS AND UNIFORM APPLICATION OF COMMUNITY REGULATIONS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY .
7 THEREFORE , THE MEMBER STATES MAY NEITHER ADOPT NOR ALLOW NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS HAVING LEGISLATIVE POWER TO ADOPT ANY MEASURE WHICH WOULD CONCEAL THE COMMUNITY NATURE AND EFFECTS OF ANY LEGAL PROVISION FROM THE PERSONS TO WHOM IT APPLIES .
8 FROM THE MOMENT THAT THE COMMUNITY ADOPTS REGULATIONS UNDER ARTICLE 40 OF THE TREATY ESTABLISHING A COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN A SPECIFIC SECTOR THE MEMBER STATES ARE UNDER A DUTY NOT TO TAKE ANY MEASURE WHICH MIGHT CREATE EXEMPTIONS FROM THEM OR AFFECT THEM ADVERSELY .
9 THE COMPATIBILITY WITH THE COMMUNITY REGULATIONS OF THE PROVISIONS REFERRED TO BY THE NATIONAL COURT MUST BE CONSIDERED IN THE LIGHT NOT ONLY OF THE EXPRESS PROVISIONS OF THE REGULATIONS BUT ALSO OF THEIR AIMS AND OBJECTIVES .
10 THE SECOND RECITAL OF THE PREAMBLE TO REGULATION NO 234/68 , THE BASIC REGULATION IN THE SECTOR IN QUESTION , NOTES THAT THE PRODUCTION OF LIVE TREES AND OTHER PLANTS , BULBS , ROOTS AND THE LIKE , CUT FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL FOLIAGE IS OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO THE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY OF CERTAIN REGIONS OF THE COMMUNITY AND STATES THE NEED TO PROMOTE THE RATIONAL MARKETING OF SUCH PRODUCTION AND TO ENSURE STABLE MARKET CONDITIONS .
11 THE FIFTH RECITAL OF THE PREAMBLE TO THAT REGULATION STATES THAT EXPORTS OF FLOWERING BULBS TO THIRD COUNTRIES ARE OF CONSIDERABLE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE TO THE COMMUNITY , THAT THE CONTINUATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH EXPORTS MAY BE ENSURED BY STABILIZING PRICES IN THIS TRADE AND THAT PROVISION SHOULD THEREFORE BE MADE FOR MINIMUM EXPORT PRICES FOR THE PRODUCTS IN QUESTION .
12 ARTICLE 3 OF THAT REGULATION PROVIDES THAT THE COUNCIL MAY ADOPT RULES GOVERNING STANDARDS OF QUALITY , SIZING AND PACKAGING OF THE PRODUCTS COVERED BY THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET AND THE SCOPE OF SUCH STANDARDS .
13 ACCORDING TO THE SAME ARTICLE , WHEN STANDARDS HAVE BEEN ADOPTED , THE PRODUCTS TO WHICH THEY APPLY MAY NOT BE DISPLAYED FOR SALE , OFFERED FOR SALE , SOLD , DELIVERED OR OTHERWISE MARKETED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SAID STANDARDS .
14 UNDER ARTICLE 7 OF THE SAID REGULATION , MINIMUM PRICES FOR EXPORTS TO THIRD COUNTRIES OF THOSE PRODUCTS MAY BE FIXED BY THE COMMISSION .
15 REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 315/68 OF THE COUNCIL OF 12 MARCH 1968 FIXING QUALITY STANDARDS FOR FLOWERING BULBS , CORMS AND TUBERS ( OJ ENGLISH SPECIAL EDITION 1968 ( I ), P . 46 ), WHICH WAS ADOPTED IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BASIC REGULATION , NO 234/68 , PROVIDES IN ARTICLE 2 THAT THE STANDARDS SHALL APPLY BOTH TO INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE AND TO TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES .
16 THE SAME ARTICLE FORBIDS THE EXPORT TO THIRD COUNTRIES OF FLOWERING BULBS , CORMS AND TUBERS OF A SIZE SMALLER THAN THE MINIMUM