Court of Justice 16 March 2006, C-310/04 (Kingdom of Spain v Council of the European Union.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General Introduction 1. By this action under Article 230 EC Spain challenges the new Community support system for cotton adopted by Council Regulation (EC) No 864/2004 (2) (‘the contested Regulation’) and inserted into the principal ‘horizontal’ regulation, Council Regulation No (EC) 1782/2003, (3) encapsulating the so-called MacSharry