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8 ALTHOUGH THE APPLICANTS MAINTAIN THAT THE CONDITIONS MENTIONED IN ARTICLE 130 ( 2 ) EXISTED ON THREE NATIONAL MARKETS , NAMELY THOSE OF GERMANY , FRANCE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM , IT IS APPARENT FROM THE DOCUMENTS BEFORE THE COURT THAT ONLY TWO STATES , NAMELY FRANCE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM , REQUESTED AUTHORIZATION , ON 9 JUNE AND 20 JUNE 1983 RESPECTIVELY , TO ADOPT PROTECTIVE MEASURES .
9 THE APPLICATION MADE BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT WAS NOT BASED ON SERIOUS DISTURBANCES ARISING FROM THE IMPORTATION OF GREEK POTATOES INTO FRANCE BUT ON MASSIVE SALES OF GREEK POTATOES IN OTHER COUNTRIES , IN PARTICULAR THE UNITED KINGDOM MARKET . THOSE SALES ARE SAID TO HAVE KEPT FRENCH POTATOES OUT OF THAT MARKET AND THEREBY BURDENED THE FRENCH MARKET WITH POTATOES WHICH COULD NOT BE DISPOSED OF IN THE UNITED KINGDOM .
10 IT THUS APPEARS THAT THE RISK OF DISTURBING THE FRENCH MARKET CANNOT BE ISOLATED FROM THE RISK AFFECTING THE UNITED KINGDOM MARKET , WHICH GAVE RISE TO A REDUCTION IN OUTLETS FOR FRENCH POTATOES . IT IS NECESSARY THEREFORE TO CONSIDER THE PROBLEM OF THE POSSIBLE APPLICATION OF PROTECTIVE MEASURES PRINCIPALLY IN RELATION TO THE SITUATION ON THE UNITED KINGDOM MARKET .
11 IN THAT CONNECTION , THE COMMISSION DID NOT CONSIDER THAT , EITHER BY REASON OF THEIR QUANTITY OR THEIR PRICE-LEVEL , THE POTATOES FROM GREECE DISTURBED OR WERE LIKELY TO DISTURB THE UNITED KINGDOM MARKET SERIOUSLY . AT THE HEARING , IT CONTENDED THAT THE TRUE REASONS FOR THE FALL IN PRICES ON THE UNITED KINGDOM MARKET WERE THE EXISTENCE OF VERY LARGE STOCKS OF WARE POTATOES AND THE FACT THAT SUPPLIES WERE SIMULTANEOUSLY AVAILABLE FROM VARIOUS SOURCES FOR A VERY SHORT PERIOD . IT IS NECESSARY THEREFORE TO ESTABLISH WHETHER , ON THE BASIS OF THE INFORMATION IN ITS POSSESSION ON 20 JUNE 1983 , THE COMMISSION WAS JUSTIFIED IN NOT ADOPTING THE MEASURES IN QUESTION .
12 IT MUST IN THE FIRST PLACE BE POINTED OUT THAT SINCE A VERY LARGE QUANTITY OF WARE POTATOES WAS PRODUCED IN THE AUTUMN OF 1982 , LARGE STOCKS OF WARE POTATOES EXISTED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MARKETING SEASON FOR NEW POTATOES , AS IS PROVED BY THE FACT THAT , ACCORDING TO THE STATISTICS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE PRODUCED BY THE COMMISSION , THE REMAINING STOCKS OF WARE POTATOES STILL AMOUNTED TO 60 000 TONNES ON 22 JUNE 1983 , WHEREAS ON 22 JUNE 1982 THEY HAD AMOUNTED TO ONLY 30 000 TONNES .
13 THE EXISTENCE OF LARGE STOCKS OF WARE POTATOES , WHOSE PRICE IS NORMALLY ONE-THIRD OF THAT OF NEW POTATOES , MUST INEVITABLY EXERT CONSIDERABLE INFLUENCE ON THE PRICES OF NEW POTATOES . IN FACT , IT IS APPARENT FROM THE ABOVEMENTIONED STATISTICS THAT AS EARLY AS THE START OF THE 1983 MARKETING YEAR , THAT IS TO SAY WELL BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE GREEK POTATOES ON THE MARKET , THE