Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 16 June 1987

1 Translated from the French.

2 Official Journal L 302 of 15. 11. 1985, p. 23.

3 Official Journal 1986, L 54, p. 2.

4 Case 6/78 Union française de céréales v Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Jonas [1978] ECR 1675, paragraph 3 at p. 1683.

5 Official Journal 1979, L 54, p. 1.

6 Case 95/78 Dūkiom SpA v Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato [1979] ECR 1549, paragraphs 49 and 50 at p. 1568.

7 Case 150/84 Bernardi v European Parliament [1986] ECR 1375, paragraph 28 at p. 1394.

8 See, a contrario, the judgment in Case 5/67 W. Beus GmbH & Co. v Hauptzollamt München [1968] ECR 83 at p. 93.

9 Judgment of 22 January 1986 in Case 250/84 Eridania Zuccherifici Nazionali SpA and Others v Cassa Conguaglio Zucchero and the Italian Ministry of Finance [1986] ECR 117, paragraphs 37 and 38 at p. 146 (emphasis added).

10 Sec in particular, a contrario, Case 78/74 Deuka, Deutsche Kraftfutter GmbH, B, J. Stolp v Einfuhr- und Vorratsstelle für Getreide und Futtermittel [1975] ECR 421, paragraph 6.

11 Case 136/77 Firma A. Racke v Hauplzollamt Mainz [1978] ECR 1245, paragraph 9 at p. 1257; Case 87/78 Welding & Co. v Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Waltershof [1978] ECR 2457, paragraph 11 at p. 2468; Case 230/78 SpA Eridania-Zuccherifici Nazionali and Another v Minister for Agriculture and Forestry and Others [1979] ECR 2749, paragraphs 15 and 16 at p. 2766.

12 Case 125/77 Koninklijke Scholten-Honig NV and Another v Hoofdproduktschap voor Akkerbouwprodukten [1978] ECR 1991, paragraph 22 at p. 2003.

13 Case 250/84 Eridania, cited above, paragraph 37.

14 Official Journal 1986, L 249, p. 27.