Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 16 June 1987

1 Translated from the French.

2 Official Journal 15.11.1985, L 302, p. 23.

3 Official Journal 1986, L 55, p. 106.

4 Regulation No 574/86 of 28 February 1986; Official Journal 1986, L 57, p. 1.

5 Commission Regulations Nos 624 and 647/86, both of 28 February 1986, are concerned with trade with Spain in new potatoes and viticultural products respectively (Official Journal 1986, L 60, pp. 1 and 50 respectively). Regulations Nos 641 and 643/86 concern products processed from fruit and vegetables and products from the live plants and floriculture sector imported into Portugal (Official Journal 1986, L 60, pp. 34 and 39 respectively).

6 Official Journal L 302, 15.11.1985, p. 9. An analogous provision appears in the Council decision of 11 June 1985 on the accession of the two new Member States to the ECSC (Official Journal L 302, p. 5).

7 Emphasis supplied.

8 Case 231/78 Commission v United Kingdom [1979] ECR 1447, paragraph 11.

9 Emphasis supplied.

10 Case 231/78 Commission v United Kingdom [1979] ECR 1447, paragraph 11.

11 Article 67 (1) of [he Act of Accession.

12 Article 67 (3) of the Act of Accession.

13 Articles 68 el leq., of the Act of Accession.

14 Article 75 of the Act of Accession.

15 Article 80 of the Act of Accession.

16 Article 81 (1) of the Act of Accession.

17 Articles 81 et seq. of the Act of Accession for trade with Spain, Articles 249 et seq. in conjunction with Annex XXII for trade with Portugal.

18 Articles 88 and 256 of the An of Accession and Council Regulation No 3792/85 of 20 December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying to trade in agricultural products between Spain and Portugal (Official Journal 1985, L 367, p. 7).

19 Second subparagraph of Article 83 (1), last phrase.

20 Article 85 (1).

21 Article 83 (2), last sentence.

22 Article 85 (3) (a).

23 Article 85 (3) (b).

24 Article 85 (1), cited above.

25 Article 83 (2); emphasis added.

26 Period allowed under Article 6 (2) of Regulation No 574/86, adopted pursuant to Article 4 (2) of the basic regulation.

27 Case 231/78, quoted above, at paragraphs 12 and 13.

28 Judgment of 11 March 1987 in Case 27/85 Vandemoortek NVv Commission [1987] ECR 1129, at paragraph 31; emphasis added.

29 See first and second recitals of the preamble to Regulation No 569/86 and the first recital of Regulation No 574/86.

30 Second subparagraph of Article 8 (2) of Regulation No 574/86; emphasis added.

31 Article 83 (2), last sentence.

32 Official Journal 1980, L 338, p. 1.

33 Case 27/85, quoted above, at paragraph 31; emphasis supplied. See also the judgment of 18 March 1987 in Case 56/86 Société pour l'exportation des sucres v ODEA ECR 1423, at paragraph 28.

34 Case 122/78 Buitoni v Fonds d'orientation [1979] ECR 677 at paragraph 16.

35 Case 66/82 Fromançais v Fonds d'orientation [1983] ECR 395 at paragraph 8.

36 Article 8 (2) of Regulation No 574/86.

37 Second subparagraph of Article 6 (2) of Regulation No 574/86.

38 Articles 8 and 9 (2) of Regulation No 569/86.

39 Case 11/70 [1970] ECR 1125, paragraphs 6 and 7.

40 Case 11/70, cited above, aï paragraphs 8, 9 and 10.

41 Case 11/70, cited above, at paragraph 12; sec also Case 117/83 Koncchi v BALM [1984] ECR 3291, paragraph 14.

42 Article 2 (3) of Regulation No 624/86, cited above.

43 Article 2 (2) of Regulation No 574/86.

44 Fourth recital of the preamble to Regulation No 569/86, emphasis supplied.

45 Official Journal 1985, L 302, cited above, p. 481; see also the fifth recital of the preamble to Regulation No 569/86.

46 First recital of the preamble to Regulation No 569/86.

47 Judgment of 22 January 1986 in Case 250/84 Eridama v Cassa Conguaglio [1986] ECR 117, paragraph 38.