Opinion of Mr Advocate General da Cruz Vilaça delivered on 14 May 1987

1 Translated from the Portuguese.

2 Sec, for example, the judgments of 26 January 1977 in Case 49/76 Gesellschaft ßir Überseehandel [1977] ECR 41; of 23 November 1977 in Case 38/77 Enka [1977] ECR 2203; of 29 June 1978 in Case 154/77 Decimami [1978] ECR 1573; of 17 December 1981 in Case 272/80 Biologiselle Produkten [1981] ECR 3277 at p. 3290, paragraph 9.

3 OJ English Special Edition 1968 (I), p. 209.

4 OJ 1975, L 282, p. 77.

5 Council Directive of 15 February 1971, OJ English Special Edition 1971 (I), p. 106.

6 See, for example, judgments of 18 May 1977 in Case 111/76 Van den Hazel [1977] ECR 901 ; of 29 November 1978 in Case 83/78 Pigs Marketing Board [1978] ECR 2347; of 26 February 1980 in Case 94/79 Vriend [1980] ECR 327.

7 Judgment of 7 February 1985 in Case 240/83 Procureur de la République v ADBHU [1985] ECR 531 at p. 549, paragraph 12.

8 OJ 1975, L 194, p. 31.

9 Case 240/83, supra, at p. 549, paragraph 13.

10 See Pigs Marketing Board, supra, at p. 2368.

11 Sec, for example, the judgment of 10 July 1984 in Case 72/83 Campus Oil [1984] ECR 2727 at p. 2746, paragraph 15.

12 Judgment of 10 March 1983 in Case 172/82 Fabricants raffineurs d'huiles de graissage v Inter-Huiles [1983] ECR 555 at p. 566.

13 [1985] ECR 549 at paragraph 14.