Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 24 March 1988

1 Translated from the French.

2 Judgment of 7 February 1985 in Case 173/83 [1985] ECR 491.

3 Judgment of 15 October 1986, Case 168/85 [1986] ECR 2945; the same conclusion was reached in the judgment of 13 October 1987 in Case 236/85 Commission v Netherlands [1987] ECR 3989.

4 Judgment of 3 December 1974 in Case 33/74 [1974] ECR 1299.

5 Judgment of 17 December 1981 in Case 279/80 [1981] ECR 3305.