Opinion of Mr Advocate General da Cruz Vilaça delivered on 21 January 1987

1 Translated from the Portuguese.

2 Official Journal, English Special Edition 1971 (II), p. 416.

3 Judgment of 22 June 1972 in Case 1/72 Frilli v Belgian State [1972] ECR 457.

4 Judgment of 9 October 1974 in Case 24/74 Caisse regionale d'assurancede maladie de Paris v Biosan [1974] ECR 999.

5 Judgment of 6 July 1978 in Case 9/78 Gillard [1978] ECR 1661, at p. 1668; judgment of 5 May 1983 in Case 139/82 Piscitello [1983] ECR 1427, al p. 1439.

6 Judgments in Gillard and Piscitello, supra; judgments of 27 March 1985 in Case 249/83 Vera Hoeckx [ 1985] ECR 973, paragraph II, and Case 122/84 Scrivner [1985] ECR 1027, paragraph 18.

7 Frilli, supra, at p. 466, paragraph 13.

8 Frilli, supra, paragraph 14; Biason, paragraphs 15 and 16; Pimulle, paragraphs 11 and 13.

9 Judgment of 31 March 1977 in Case 79/76 Fosti v Bundesknappschaft [1977] ECR 667, at p. 678, paragraph 6.

10 To the same effect, Biason, supra, paragraph 10.

11 Hoeckx, supra, paragraph 12 and Scrivner, paragraph 12 See also the Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon in the same cases.

12 Paragraph 12.

13 See Judgment of 15 July 1964 in Case 100/63 Van der Veen [1964] ECR 565, at p. 573; judgment of 2 December 1964 [1964] ECR 647, at p. 653; see also the Opinion of Mr Advocate General Reischl in Case 187/73 Callemeyn [1974] ECR 566.

14 See Opinions of Mr Advocate General Reischl in Biason and of Mr Advocate General Mancini in Piscitello.

15 See Biason and Piscitello judgments.

16 Judgment of 7 November 1973 in Case 51/73 Sociale Verzekeringsbank v Smieja [1973] ECR 1213, at p. 1222; judgment of 10 June 1982 in Case 92/81 Caracciolo née Camera [198 2] ECR 2213, at p. 22 24; judgment of 23 October 1986 in Case 300/84 Van Roosmalen [1986] ECR 3097, paragraph 39.