Opinion of Mr Advocate General da Cruz Vilaça delivered on 3 December 1987

1 Translated from che Portuguese.

2 Moniteur belge of 16 February 1983.

3 Official Journal, English Special Edition 1972 (II), p. 437.

4 Respectively, Official Journal, English Special Editions 1959-62, p. 97, 1959-62, p. 204, 1963-64, p. 229, and 1971 (II), p. 616, and Official Journal 1983, L 86, p. 14.

5 Judgment of 7 February 1984 in Case 237/83 Jongeneel Knot, [1984] ECR 483, paragraph 13; judgment of 28 March 1984 in Joined Cases 47 and 48/83 Pluimveeslachterijen Midden-Nederland and Van Mient [1984) ECR 1721.

6 Judgment of 23 January 1975 in Case 31/74 Galli [1975] ECR 47, paragraph 29 of the decision and paragraph 1 of the operative part.

7 Case 51/74 [1975] ECR 79, 95, paragraphs 28 and 29.

8 Case 111/76 [1977] ECR 901, paragraph 13.

9 Case 83/78 [1978] ECR 2347.

10 Case 177/78 [1979] ECR 2161, paragraph 14.

11 Case 237/83 [1984] ECR 483, paragraph 12.

12 Case 50/76 [1977] ECR 137.

13 Case 16/83 [1984] ECR 1299, at pp. 1324 to 1326.

14 [1984] ECR 1721, 1740, paragraph 29.

15 Judgment of 25 November 1986 [1986] ECR 3449.

16 Case 222/82 [1983] ECR 4083, 4121, paragraph 23.