Opinion of Mr Advocate General da Cruz Vilaça delivered on 18 March 1987

1 Translated from the Portuguese.

2 Orders of the Court of 25 September 1983 in Case 85/63 [1963] ECR 195, and of 11 May 1971 in Case 1/71 [1971] ECR 363.

3 Judgment of 28 May 1980 in Joined Cases 33 and 75/79 Kuhner v Commission [1980] ECR 1677, at p. 1697.

4 Judgment of 28 May 1980 in Joined Cases 33 and 75/79 Kuhner v Commission [1980] ECR 1677, at p. 1697.

5 Besides the judgment last cited, see the judgment of 29 October 1981 in Case 125/80 Arning v Commission [1981] ECR 2539, at p. 2555; Judgment of 9 December 1982 in Case 191/81 Plug v Commission [1982] ECR 4229, at p. 4247; judgment of 23 October 1986 in Case 142/85 Schwieringi Court of Auditors [1986] ECR 3177.

6 Opinion cilcd above in Kuhner [1980] ECR 1708.

7 Judgment of 24 June 1976 in Case 56/75 Eizv Commission [1976] ECR 1097, at p. 1111.

8 [1976] ECR 1117. Sec also the Opinion in Case 164/78 Woehtling v Commission [1979] ECR 1961, at p. 1974.

9 In circumstances similar to those which prompted the Court to decide in its judgment cited above in Aming [1981] ECR 2555.