Opinion of Mr Advocate General da Cruz Vilaça delivered on 5 February 1987

1 Translated from the Portuguese.

2 See the judgment of 14 May 1974 in Case 4/73 Hold v Commission [1974] ECR 491 at p. 507.

3 judgment of 21 February 1974 in Joined Cases 15 to 33, 52, 53, 57 to 109, 116, 117, 123, 132 and 135 to 137/73 Scbots-Kortner v Council, Commission and Parliament [1974] ECR 177 at pp. 188 and 189.

4 Judgment of 12 December 1967 in Case 46/67 Muller v Commission [1967] ECR 365 at p. 374; and judgment of 24 June 1971 in Case 53/70 Vinek v Commùsion [1971] ECR 601 at p. 609.

5 Sec the summary of the judgment in Vinck, cited above.

6 OJ L 356, 31.12.1977, p. 1.

7 Judgment of 18 October 1977 in Case 25/68 Schemer v Parliament [1977] ECR 1729 at p. 1743.

8 Judgment of 26 February 1981 in Case 25/80 De Briey v Commission [1981] ECR 637 at p. 645.