Judgment of the Court 24 March 1987

In Case 286/85 REFERENCE to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the High Court, Dublin, for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between

THE COURT composed of: Lord Mackenzie Stuart, President, Y. Galmot, C. Kakouris, T. F. O'Higgins and F. Schockweiler (Presidents of Chambers), G. Bosco, T. Koopmans, O. Due, U. Everling, K. Bahlmann, R. Joliet, J. C. Moitinho de Almeida and G. C. Rodríguez Iglesias, Judges, Advocate General: G. F. Mancini Registrar: D. Louterman, Administrator

after considering the observations submitted on behalf of Mrs Cotter and Mrs McDermott, the prosecutrices in the main proceedings, by M. Robinson, Senior Counsel, and G. Durcan, Barrister-at-law, the Irish Government, the respondent in the main proceedings, by V. A. Landy, Senior Counsel, and A. O'Caoimh, Barrister-at-law, the Commission of the European Communities, by J. Currall, a member of its Legal Department, the Netherlands Government, by I. Verkade, for the Minister of Foreign Affairs, acting as Agent,

having regard to the Report for the Hearing and further to the hearing on 15 October 1986,

after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General delivered at the sitting on 27 January 1987,

gives the following

Judgment

The first question

The second question

Costs

1 Language of the Case: English.