Opinion of Mr Advocate General Mischo delivered on 11 June 1987

1 Translated from the French.

2 Official Journal, English Special Edition 1971 (II), p. 682.

3 Official Journal, English Special Edition 1971 (II), p. 678.

4 Published by the Economic and Social Committee in the preamble to its Opinion 65/187/EEC, Journal Officiel No 63, 13. 4. 1965, p. 929 (no official English version).

5 Judgment of 10 February 1982 in Case 76/81 Transporoute v Minister for Public Works [1982] ECR 417.

6 The French text of the judgment wrongly uses the word for and. Article 27 reads 23 to 26.

7 Extract from a letter cited by the Conseil d'Etat in its order of 15 January 1986 in the CEIcase, at p. 2.

8 In attributing that purpose to the criterion, the Conseil d'Etat had in mind the commentary in the preparatory report on the Decree-Law of 3 February 1947 published in Paihtomie beige, 1947, p. 72, and cited by the Fonds des routes at p. 9 of its observations.