Opinion of Mr Advocate General VerLoren van Themaat delivered on 2 march 1983

1 Translated from the Dutch.

2 As counsel for lhe United Kingdom rightly observed with regard to point (f), Article 2 of the decision in question would in fact fall foul of such a broad prohibition of discrimination.

3 I refer here to the third sentence of paragraph 17 of the Court's decision in Case 169/80 (Administration des Doiianesv Gondrand [1981] ECR 1931).

4 The most important application, in the EEC Treaty itself, of such a principle of equal treatment at the national level is, of course, Article 52.