Opinion of Mr Advocate General Lenz delivered on 16 December 1986

1 Translated from the German.

2 See E. Paulis. Les états peuvent-ils enfreindre les articles 85 et 86 du Traité CEE?, Journal des tribunaux, 1985, p. 209 et seq.

3 See the judgments of the Court of 13 February 1969 in Case 14/68 Wilhelm v Bundeskartellamt [1969] ECR 1; 16 November 1977 in Case 13/77 Inno v ATAB [1977] ECR 2115; 10 January 1985 in Case 229/83 Centres Leclerc v Au blé vert [1985] ECR 1; 29 January 1985 in Case 231/83 Cullet v Centres Leclerc [1985] ECR 315; 30 April 1986 in Joined Cases 209 to 213/84 Ministère public v Asjes [1986] ECR 1425.

4 Opinion delivered on 3 October 1984 in Case 229/83 [1985] ECR 1 at p. 15.

5 Judgment of 6 April 1962 in Case 13/61 Kledingverkoopuedrijfde Gem en Uitdenbogerd v Robert Bosch GmbH and Others [1962] ECR 45.

6 See the judgment of the Court of 30 June 1966 in Case 56/65 Société technique miniere v Maschinenbau Ulm GmbH [1966] ECR 235; and the judgment of 29 October 1980 in Joined Cases 209 to 215 and 218/78 Van Landewyck v Commission [1980] ECR 3125 at p. 3274.

7 See judgment of 26 November 1975 in Case 73/74 Groupement des fabricants de papiers peints de Belgique and Others v Commission [1975] ECR 1491 at p. 1513.

8 Loc. cit., at p. 3275.

9 I refer in that regard to the statements of the Danish Government in Joined Cases 141 to 143/81 Holdijk [1982] ECR 1299 at p. 1307 et seq., in which it complained that the excessive succinctness of the judgment of the national court made it impossible for the Government to make observations in accordance with Article 20 of the Statute.

10 Case 66/86 Ahmed Saeed and Another v Zentrale zur Bekämpfung unlauteren Wettbewerbs eV [1989] ECR, part 4.