Opinion of Mr Advocate General Lenz delivered on 11 July 1985

1 Translated from the German.

2 Judgment of 25 October 1979 in Case 22/79 Greenwich Film Production v Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique and Others [1979] ECR 3275, paragraph 11.

3 Judgment of 30 April 1974 in Case 155/73 Giuseppe Sacchi, [1974] ECR 409, paragraph 6, p. 427; judgment of 18 March 1980 in Case 52/79 Procureur du Roi v Marc J. V. C. Dehauve and Others [1980] ECR 833, paragraph 8, p. 855.

4 Judgment of 30 April 1974 in Case 155/73 Giuseppe Sacchi, cited above, especially paragraph 14 et seq., p. 429.

5 Case 26/75 General Motors Continental NV v Commission [1975] ECR 1367, paragraph 9, p. 1379.

6 Case 41/83 Italy v Commission [1985] ECR 880.

7 Casc 85/76 Hoßhtann-la-Roche & Co. AG v Commission [1979) ECR 461, paragraph 38 el seq., p. 520.

8 Judgment of 13 February 1979 in Case 85/76, ciied above, paragraph 40, p. 520.

9 See H. Schröter, Note 14 on Article 86 in Kommentar zum EWG-Vertrag, by Groeben, Boeck, Thiesing, Ehlcrmann; Baden-Baden, 1983.

10 Judgment of 13 November 1975 in Case 26/75, cited above, paragraph 4 et seq., p. 1377; judgment of 31 May 1979 in Case 22/78 Hugin Kassaregister AB and Others v Commission [1979] ECR 1869, paragraph 7, p. 1896.

11 Judgment of 30 April 1974 in Case 155/73, cited above, paragraph 12 et seq., p. 428.

12 Joined Cases 6 and 7/73 Istituto Chemioterapico Italiano SpA and Commercial Solvents Corporation v Commission [1974] ECR 223.

13 Ibid, paragraph 25, p. 250.