Judgment of the Court 21 May 1987

In Joined Cases 133 to 136/85 REFERENCE to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the Verwaltungsgericht (Administrative Court) Frankfurt am Main for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between

THE COURT composed of: Lord Mackenzie Stuart, President, Y. Galmot, C. Kakouris and F. Schockweiler (Presidents of Chambers), T. Koopmans, U. Everling, R. Joliet, J. C. Moitinho de Almeida and G. C. Rodríguez Iglesias, Judges, Advocate General: C. O. Lenz Registrar: K. Riechenberg, acting as Administrator

after considering the observations submitted on behalf of:

the plaintiffs in the main proceedings, by J. Gündisch, Rechtsanwalt in Hamburg;

the Council of the European Communities, by A. Sacchettini, acting as Agent,

the Commission of the European Communities, by P. Karpenstein, a member of its Legal Department, acting as Agent,

having regard to the Report for the Hearing as supplemented further to the hearing on 4 June 1986,

after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General delivered at the sitting on 5 December 1986,

gives the following

Judgment

Questions 1 and 2

Questions 3 and 5

Question 6

Question 4

Question 7

Question 8

Costs

1 Language of the Case: German.