Opinion of Mr Advocate General da Cruz Vilaça delivered on 9 December 1986

1 Translated from the Portuguese.

2 Judgment of 6 June 1985 in Case 146/84 De Santis v Court of Auditori [1985] ECR 1723.

3 Judgment of 7 May 1986 in Case 191/84 Franco Rossi and Oteen v Commission [1986] ECR 1541, especially at paragraph 11 of the Decision.

4 Judgment of 18 June 1981 in Case 173/80 Blasig v Commission [1981] ECR 1649, especially at p. 1658.

5 See judgment of 1 December 1983 in Case 190/82 Blomfield Commission [1983] ECR 3981, especially at p. 3991, as well as the judgment in Blasig, cited above.

6 See for example the judgment of 21 February 1974, Joined Cases 15 to 33, 52, 53, 57 to 109, 116, 117, 123, 132 and 135 to 137/73 Schots-Kortntr and Otbm v ComcH Commission and Parliament [1974] ECR 177.

7 Judgment of 1 December 1983 in Case 190/82 Blomefield v Commission [1983] ECR 3981, especially at p. 3994, paragraph 26 of the Decision; judgment of 12 July 1984 in Case 17/83 Angclidis v Commission [1984] ECR 2907, especially at p. 2921, paragraph 16.

8 Judgment of 30 January 1974 in Case 148/73 Louwage v Commission [1974] ECR 81, especially at p. 90, paragraph