Opinion of Mr Advocate General Cruz Vilaça delivered on 28 April 1988

1 Translated from the Portuguese.

2 OJ, English Special Edition 1966, p. 221.

3 See the judgment of 22 March 1983 in Case 42/82 Commission v France [1983] ECR 1013 et seq., in which the Court condemned various practices, imputable to the French authorities, restricting imports of Italian wine. See also the judgment of 9 May 1985 in Case 21/84 Commission v France [1985] ECR 1355 et seq., in which there was considered incompatible with Article 30 of the Treaty conduct on the pan of the French tax administration which obstructed, delayed and finally withheld, without due explanation, the approval sought by a United Kingdom manufacturer for postal franking machines which it wished to export to France.

4 Commiision v Hellenic Republic [1988] ECR 1835.