Opinion of Mr Advocate-General Roemer delivered on 27 November 1969

1 Translated from the French.

2 Joined Casees 1 and 14/57 (Sociétés des Usines à Tubes de la Sarre v High Authority of the ECSC), judgment of 3 December 1957, Rec. 1957, p. 222, French version; Case 8/55 (Fédération Charbonnière de Belgique v High Authority of the ECSC), judgment of 16 July 1956, Rec. 1955-1956, p. 225, French version.

3 Joined Cases 7/56 and 3 to 7/57; judgment of 12 July 1957, Rec. 1957, p. 111, French Version.

4 Joined Cases 1 and 14/57, Rec. 1957, loc. cit.

5 Judgment of 22 March 1961 in Joined Cases 42 and 49/59 (SNUPAT), Rec. 1961, p. 142, French edition.

6 Cf. Kommentar zum Bundesbeamtengesetz by Plog-Wiedow, Note 7, paragraph 79.