Opinion of Mr Advocate General Lenz delivered on 6 October 1987

1 Translated from the German.

2 Emphasis supplied.

3 Journal Officiel 1967, No 152. p. 2.

4 Official Journal, English Special Edition 1968 (I), p. 30.

5 Official Journal 1983, L 203, p. 1.

6 Judgment of 16 March 1971 in Case 48/70 Giorgio Bernardi v European Parliament [1971] ECR 175, at p. 184, and the judgment of 20 June 1985 in Case 123/84 Klein v Commission [1985] ECR 1907, at p. 1918, paragraph 23.

7 Judgmem of 20 November 1980 in Case 806/79 Cerin v Commission [1980] ECR 3515, at p. 3526.

8 See most recently, the judgment of the Court of 7 May 1987 in Case 189/85 Commission v Germany [1987] ECR 2061, at paragraphs 16 and 21.