Opinion of Mr Advocate General da Cruz Vilaça delivered on 4 February 1988

1 Translated from the Portuguese.

2 Official Journal 1979, L 103, p. 1.

3 Judgments of 7 February 1973 in Case 39/72 Commission v Italian Republic [1973] ECR 101; of 20 February 1986 in Case 309/84 Commission v Italian Republic [1986] ECR 599; of 5 June 1986 in Case 103/84 Commission v Italian Republic [1986] ECR 1759; and of 17 June 1987 in Case 154/85 Commission v Italian Republic [1987] ECR 2717.

4 Judgment of 19 December 1961 in Case 7/61 Commission v Italy [1961] ECR 317.

5 Judgment of 27 May 1981 in Joined Cases 142 and 143/80 Amministrazione delle finanze dello Stato v Essevi and Salengo [1981) ECR 1413; judgment of 13 October 1987 in Case 236/85 Commission v Hie Netherlands [1987] ECR 3989, at paragraph 28.

6 Judgment of 8 July 1987 in Case 247/85 Commiuion v Kingdom of Belgium [1987] ECR 3029, at paragraph 22.

7 It should be pointed out, however, that the Court has already stated that reasons of local interest are not included in any of the grounds for derogation laid down in Article 9 (1) of the directive (judgment of 8 July 1987 Commission v Kingdom of Belgium, cited above, at paragraph 58).