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# 61981J0006

**Judgment of the Court of 2 March 1982. - BV Industrie Diensten Groep v J.A. Beele Handelmaatschappij BV. - Reference for a preliminary ruling: Gerechtshof 's-Gravenhage - Netherlands. - Free movement of goods - Precise imitation. - Case 6/81.** 
  
*European Court reports 1982 Page 00707  
 Spanish special edition Page 00121  
 Swedish special edition Page 00327  
 Finnish special edition Page 00343*

  

[Summary](#SM)  
[Parties](#I1)  
[Subject of the case](#I2)  
[Grounds](#MO)  
[Decision on costs](#CO)  
[Operative part](#DI)

## Keywords

  
*FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS - QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS - MEASURES HAVING EQUIVALENT EFFECT - RESTRAINING PRECISE IMITATION - IMPORTED PRODUCT ALMOST IDENTICAL TO ANOTHER PRODUCT ALREADY MARKETED IN THE SAME MEMBER STATE - JUDGMENT RESTRAINING SALE - PERMISSIBILITY

( EEC TREATY , ART . 30 )*

## Summary

  
*THE RULES OF THE EEC TREATY ON THE FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS DO NOT PREVENT A RULE OF NATIONAL LAW WHICH APPLIES TO DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED PRODUCTS ALIKE , FROM ALLOWING A TRADER , WHO FOR SOME CONSIDERABLE TIME IN THE MEMBER STATE CONCERNED HAS MARKETED A PRODUCT WHICH DIFFERS FROM SIMILAR PRODUCTS , TO OBTAIN AN INJUNCTION AGAINST ANOTHER TRADER RESTRAINING HIM FROM CONTINUING TO MARKET IN THAT MEMBER STATE A PRODUCT COMING FROM ANOTHER MEMBER STATE IN WHICH IT IS LAWFULLY MARKETED BUT WHICH FOR NO COMPELLING REASON IS ALMOST IDENTICAL TO THE FIRST-MENTIONED PRODUCT AND THEREBY NEEDLESSLY CAUSES CONFUSION BETWEEN THE TWO PRODUCTS .*

## Parties

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