Opinion of Mrs Advocate General Rozès delivered on 18 january 1983

1 Translated from the French.

2 Decisions 81/1043/EEC and 81/1044/EEC.

3 Article 3 (2) (a).

4 Article 3 (2) (b).

5 Article 6 (4) of Council Regulation No 2104/73.

6 Carmine Antonio Russo v Azienda di Stato per gli Interventi sul Mercato Agricolo [1976] ECR 45, para. 5 at p. 55.

7 Article 2 (d).

8 See Article 2 (5) of Regulation No 986/68 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1038/72 of the Council of 18 May 1972 (Official Journal, English Specia! Edition 1972 (II), p. 456).

9 Last recital in the preamble to Regulation No 1038/72.

10 Article 8 (3) of Regulation No 990/72.

11 Article 17 (2) of Regulation No 1107/68.

12 Gazzetta Ufficiale [Official Gazette] of the Italian Republic No 225 of 2 October 1973.

13 1974 accounts, cleared after the judgment of 27 January 1981 in Case 1251/79 Italian Republic v Commission, cited above.

14 Article 5(1), contracts for long-term storage.

15 Article 5 (2) and (3), contracts for short-term storage.

16 Case 1251/79 Italian Republic v Commission of the European Communities cited above, paragraph 13 of the judgment.

17 Article 2 (2) of Commission Regulation No 289/71, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2600/74 of the Commission of 11 October 1974 (Official Journal 1974, L 277, p. 34).

18 Article 3 (4) of the same regulation, as amended by Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2600/74.

19 Second paragraph of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1637/74 of the Commission of 27 June 1974 on special conditions for granting private storage aid for pigmeai (Official Journal 1974, L 173, p. 62).

20 Paragraph 9 of the judgment, at p. 279.

21 Judgment of 7 February 1979 in Joined Cases 15 and 16/76 French Government v Commission of the European Communities [1979] ECR 321, paragraph 28 of the judgment, at pp. 339 and 340.