Facts:  

On 25 September 2005, the applicant in the main proceedings presented himself at the security control at Vienna-Schwechat Airport. That control showed that he was carrying tennis racquets in his cabin baggage. Since those racquets, according to the authorities, fell under the prohibited articles in points 4.1 and 4.3 of the annex to Regulation No 2320/2002 and were listed in the annex to Regulation No 622/2003, the applicant was not permitted to pass through the security control. When he none the less boarded the aeroplane with the tennis racquets in his cabin baggage, he was asked to leave the plane.