Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 31 May 1988

1 Translated from the French.

2 Judgment of 21 February 1974 in Case 15/73 Scholl nee Kortner and Others v Council and Commission [1974] ECR 177; judgment of 15 June 1976 in Case 1/76 Wack v Commission [1976] ECR 1017.

3 Judgment of 2 July 1981 in Case 185/80 Garganese v Commission [1981] ECR 1785.

4 Judgment of 16 October 1980 in Case 147/79 Hochstrass v Court of Justice [1980] ECR 3005, paragraph 13.

5 Judgment of 11 July 1979 in Case 252/78 Broe v Commission [1979] ECR 2393.

6 Judgment of 27 October 1987 in Joined Cases 176 and 177/86 [1987] ECR 4333.