The Weekly Law Reports
[1987] 2 WLR 39
EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
CONEGATE LTD.
v.
H.M. CUSTOMS AND EXCISE
(Case 121/85)
1986 Jan. 21;
March 11
March 11
President of Chamber T. Koopmans, Judges K. Bahlmann, G. Bosco, T.F. O'Higgins and F.A. Schockweiler, Advocate General Sir Gordon Slynn
[QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION]
1986 April 25
Kennedy J.
Revenue
— Customs and excise
— Prohibition on import and export of goods
— Import of indecent and obscene articles from member state of E.E.C.
— No restriction on manufacture and limited restriction on marketing of such articles in United Kingdom
— Whether prohibition justified on ground of public morality
— Exception relating to pre-existing treaty obligations
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Customs Consolidation Act 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c.36), s. 42
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E.E.C. Treaty (Cmnd. 5179-II), arts. 30, 36, 234