Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 11 December 1984

1 Translated from the French.

2 Article 19 of the Rules on the Insurance of Officials of the European Communities against the Risk of Accident and of Occupational Disease, adopted on 27 January 1977 by the European Parliament.

3 Case 44/71, Marcalo, [1972] ECR 427, at paragraphs 4 to 9.

4 Case 34/80, Allibii, [1981] ECR 665, at paragraph 7.

5 Case 7/77, von Wüllerstorff and Urbair, [1978] ECR 769, at paragraph 8.

6 Case 543/79, Birbe, [1982] ECR 4425, at paragraph 26.

7 Joined Cases 22 and 23/60, Elz, [1961] ECR 181, Opinion of Advocate General Roemer, at p. 192.