Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 19 May 1987

1 Translated from the French.

2 Known as the Ankara Agreement of 12 September 1963, it entered into force on 1 December 1964 (Official Journal 1973, C 113, p. 1) after confirmation by Decision No 64/732/EEC of the Council of 23 December 1963 (Journal Officiel No 217 of 29.12.1964), supplemented by an Additional Protocol of 23 November 1970, which entered into force on 1 January 1973 (Official Journal 1973, C 113, p. 17)

3 Judgment of 30 April 1974 in Case 181/73 [1974] ECR 449, paragraphs 3 to 6.

4 Agreement establishing an association between the EEC and Greece, signed on 9 July 1961; Official Journal, English Special Edition, Second Scries I (External Relations (I)), p. 4.

5 Case 87/75 [1976] ECR 129.

6 Emphasis added.

7 Paragraph 12; emphasis added.

8 Paragraph 13; emphasis added.

9 Paragraph 14; emphasis added.

10 Judgment of 31 March 1971 in Case 22/70 Commission v Council [1971] ECR 263; Opinion 1/76 of 26 April 1977, ECR741.

11 Official Journal 1973, C 113, p. 16.

12 See C. Flaesch-Mougin's thesis, Les accords externes de la CEE: Essai d'une typologie, 1979, at p. 67.

13 Article 28 of the Ankara Agreement.

14 Judgment of 29 April 1982 in Case 17/81 [1982] ECR 1331.

15 See inter alia Cases 87/75 Bresciani and 104/81 Kupferberg, cited above.

16 See H. N. Tagaras, L'Effet direct des accords internationaux de la Communauté, Cahiers de droit européen, 1984, Nos 1 and 2, p. 15, especially p. 24 et seq.

17 Case 104/81 Kupferberg, at paragraphs 22 and 23.

18 Article 23 of the Agreement.

19 Decision 1/80 of the Council of Association of 19 September 1960, Articles 6.

20 Judgment of 5 May 1981 in Case 804/79 Commission v United Kingdom [1981] ECR 1045, at paragraphs 23 and 28.

21 Official Journal, English Special Edition 1968 (II), p. 475.

22 Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights of 28 May 1985, A Series, No 95.