Opinion of Mr Advocate-General Karl Roemer delivered on 12 December 1962

1 Translated from the German.

2 Pescatore: L'autorité en droit interne des traités internationaux; Pasicrisie Luxembourgeoise, 1962, page 99 et seq.

3 Les traités ou accords régulièrement ratifiés ou approuvés ont, dès leur publication, une autorité supérieure à celle des lois, sous réserve, pour chaque accord ou traité, de son application par l'autre partie. (Treaties or agreements duly ratified or approved have, from the moment of promulgation, an authority superior to that of the laws, subject, for each agreement or treaty, to its being put into effect by the other party).

4 Gerhard Behr: The Relationship between Community Law and the Law of the Member States. (Restrictive Practices, Patents, Trade Marks and Unfair Competition in the Common Market).

5 Schedule IV to the request for a preliminary ruling.