Opinion of Mr Advocate General Lenz delivered on 24 March 1988

1 Translated from the German.

2 Council Regulation No 873/84 (OJ L 90, p. 42).

3 Council Regulation No 855/84, Annex V (OJ L 90, p. 1).

4 OJ 1984, C 94, p. 1.

5 Commission Directive 70/50/EEC of 22 December 1969 based on the provisions of Article 33 (7), on the abolition of measures wnich have an effect equivalent to quantitative restrictions on imports and are not covered by other provisions adopted in pursuance of the EEC Treaty (OJ, English Special Edition 1970 (I), p. 17).

6 See judgment of 11 July 1974 in Case 8/74 Procureur du Roiv Dassonville [1974] ECR 837, at p. 852.

7 See judgment of 29 June 1978 in Case 154/77 Procureur du Roi v Dechmann [1978] ECR 1573, at p. 1584.

8 See Council Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 of 27 June 1980 on the common organization of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat (OJ 1980, L 183, p. 3).

9 See judgment of 7 February 1984 in Case 237/82 Jongeneel Kaas v Netherlands [1984] ECR 483, at p. 501 et seq.; judgment of 4 February 1988 in Case 255/86 Commission v Belgium [1988] ECR 693.

10 For example with Bulgaria (OJ 1982, L 43), Hungary (OJ 1981, L 150), Poland (OJ 1981, L 137), Romania (OJ 1981, L 137), Czechoslovakia (OJ 1982, L 204).

11 OJ 1982; L 3, pp. 18 and 26 respectively.

12 See judgment of 16 December 1986 in Case 124/85 Commission v Hellenic Republic [1986] ECR 3935.