Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 21 May 1987

1 Translated from the French.

2 Official Journal, English Special Edition 1971 (II), p. 694.

3 Judgment of 27 May 1981 in Joined Cases 142 and 143/80 Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato v Essevi and Salengo [1981] ECR 1413, at paragraph 15.

4 See the judgment of 10 March 1970 in Case 7/69 Commission v Italy [1970] ECR 111.

5 Emphasis added.

6 Judgment of 11 July 1974 in Case 8/74 [1974] ECR 837.

7 All trading rules enacted by Member States which are capable of hindering, directly or indirectly, actually or potentially, intra-Communily trade are to be considered as measures having an effect equivalent to quantitative restrictions.

8 Judgment of 20 February 1979 in Case 120/78 Rewe-Zentral v Bundesmonopolverwaltung fur Branntwein [1979] ECR 649; see also judgment of 10 November 1982 in Case 261/81 Rau v De Smedt [1982] ECR 3961 and, most recently, the judgments of 12 March 1987 in Case 178/84 Commission v Federal Republic of Germany [1987] ECR... and Case 176/84 Commission v Hellenic Republic [1987] ECR 1227, 1193.

9 See, for example, Timmermans in the anthology Thirty Years of Community Law, at p. 267.

10 Case 261/81 Rau, cited above, at paragraph 12.