Opinion of Mr Advocate General da Cruz Vilaça delivered on 21 January 1988

1 Translated from the Portuguese.

2 Judgment of 18 June 1981 in Case 173/80 Blasig v Commission [1981] ECR 1649, paragraph 13.

3 Judgment of 21 March 1985 in Case 263/83 Turner v Commission [1985] ECR 893, 906, end of paragraph 16.

4 See Turner, supra, paragraphs 17 to 21.

5 Judgment of 5 May 1983 in Case 207/81 Ditterich v Commission [1983] ECR 1539, paragraph 13.

6 See judgment of 28 October 1982 in Case 105/81 Oberthür v Commission [1982] ECR 3781, paragraph 26.

7 See, finally, the judgment of 16 December 1987 in Case 178/86 Turner v Commission [1986] ECR 5867, paragraph 8, and my opinion in the same case. See also, to the same effect, the judgment of 1 June 1983 in Joined Cases 36, 37 and 218/81 Seton v Commission [1983] ECR 1789, paragraphs 13 and 14; judgment in Turner, supra, paragraph 16.

8 Judgment of 6 February 1986 in Joined Cases 173/82, 157/83 and 186/84 Cstille v Commission [1986] ECR 197, paragraphs 35 and 36.

9 Judgment of 30 January 1974 in Case 148/73 [1974] ECR 81, paragraph 12.

10 Journal Officiel 1969, Annex I, p. 71.

11 Official Journal 1980, Annex III, p. 81.

12 Supra, paragraphs 26 to 28.

13 Judgment of 10 June 1987 in Case 7/86 Vincent v European Parliament [1987] ECR 2473, paragraphs 25 and 26. See also paragraph 62 of my opinion in that case, delivered on 1 April 1987.

14 Case 61/76 Geist v Commission [1977] ECR 1419.

15 Paragraph 47.