Opinion of Mrs Advocate General Rozès delivered on 26 October 1982

1 Translated from the French.

2 Council Regulation No 2831/77 of 12 December 1977 on the fixing of rates for the carnage of goods by road between Member States.

3 9 December 1965 Hessische Knappschaft v Maison Singer et Fils, Case 44/65 [1965] ECR 965.

4 17 December 1981, Frans-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Biologische Producten, Case 272/80 [1981] ECR 3277, at p. 3290; see further, in particular, the Court's judgment of 6 October 1970 in Grad v Finanzamt Traunstein, Case 9/70 [1970] ECR 825, at p. 840, paragraph 17 of the decision.

5 The Mertert Port case, [1971] ECR 723.

6 ibid., at p. 731.

7 ibid., Judgment of 14 July 1971 at p. 729, paragraph 4 of the decision.

8 Royal Decree implementing Regulation (EEC) No 2831/77 of the Council of the European Communities of 12 December 1977 on the fixing of rates for the carriage of goods by road between Member States.

9 Regulation (EEC) No 1174/68 of the Council of the European. Communities of 30 July 1968 on the introduction of a system of bracket tariffs for the carriage of goods by road between Member States.

10 Commission Decision of 12 June 1978 settling the dispute between the Federal Republic of Germany on the one side and Belgium and the Netherlands on the other over the level of the compulsory tariffs for the carriage of goods by road between those Member States.

11 Law on the carriage of goods by road for hire or reward, as I said earlier.

12 See in particular the judgments of 19 March 1964, Hmkstran, nee Ungir, Case 75/63 [1964] ECR 177, and 6 May 1980, Lee, Case 152/79 [1980] ECR 1495, at p. 1507, paragraph 11 of the decision.