Opinion of Mr Advocate General Cruz Vilaça delivered on 8 March 1988

1 Translated from the Portuguese.

2 Official Journal 1979, L 54, p. 48.

3 Official Journal 1979, L 54, p. 75.

4 Formerly Article 30 (1). The new version is the result of the amendments made to Regulation No 337/79 by Council Regulation No 454/80 of 18 February 1980 (Official Journal 1980, L 57, p. 7).

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

6 Now Article 31 (1).

7 Official Journal, English Special Edition 1970 (II), p. 420.

8 Initial version — now Article 31.

9 Old Article 30.

10 This only becomes clear if account is taken of the dates of the regulations which they replaced: Regulation No 817/70 of 28 April 1970, which preceded Regulation No 338/79; and Regulation No 1388/70 of 13 July 1970, which preceded Regulation No 347/79.

11 Now Article 4 of Regulation No 338/79.