Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 19 November 1987

1 Translated from the French.

2 Judgment of 12 February 1987 in Case 233/85 Bonino v Commission [1987] ECR 739.

3 See, for example, judgment of 16 June 1971 in Cast 77/70 Prelle v Commission [1971] ECR 561; judgment of 12 July 1973 in Case 28/72 Tontodonati v Commission [1973] ECR 779; judgment of 19 March 1975 in Case 189/73 Van Reenen v Commission [1975] ECR 445.

4 Judgment of 29 October 1975 in Case 22/75 Küster v Parliament [1975] ECR 1267.

5 L Dubouis: Fonctionnaires et agents des Communautés européennes, chronique, Revue trimestrielle de droit européen, 1983, p. 86, especially at p. 92.

6 See, for example, Mr Advocate General Capotorti's Opinion in Case 268/80 Guglielmi v Parliament [1981] ECR 2295, especially at pp. 2307 et seq.

7 Judgment of 19 May 1983 in Case 289/81 Mavridis v parliament [1983] ECR 1731, especially at p. 1744.

8 Judgment of 25 February 1987 in Case 52/86 Banner v Parliament [1987] ECR 979, paragraph 9.

9 Judgment of 5 February 1987 in Case 306/85 Huybrechts v Commission [1987] ECR 629, paragraph 9..

10 Judgment of 4 February 1987 in Case 324/85 Bouteiller [1987] ECR 529.

11 European Parliament, Papers for the 1986-87 sitting, 18 March 1987, A Series, Document A2-257/86.

12 European Parliament, Second Parliamentary Term, Texts adopted by the European Parliament, Volume 6/87, June 1987.