Opinion of Mr Advocate General Cruz Vilaça delivered on 26 May 1988

1 Translated from the Portuguese.

2 Official journal, English Special Edition 1972 (31 December), p. 3.

3 Commission v France [1983] ECR 2011, at p. 2032.

4 Journal Officiti de la République Française of 25 May 1976, p. 3083.

5 Journal Officiel de la République Française of 7 January 1977, p. 189.

6 Journal Officiel de la République Française of 24 January 1985, p. 1026.

7 Case 13/77 [1977] ECR 2115, at p. 2150, paragraph 64 of the decision.

8 Judgment of 6 May 1980 in Case 102/79 Commission v Belgium [1980] ECR 1473, at p. 1486, paragraph 11 of the decision.

9 Judgment of 11 July 1974 in Case 8/74 Dauonville [1974] ECR 837, paragraph 5 of the decision.

10 Judgment of 24 January 1978 in Case 82/77 Van Tiggtlc [1978] ECR 25, at pp. 39 to 40, paragraphs 10 to 21 of the decision; judgment of 7 June 1983 in Case 78/82 Commission v Italy [1983] ECR 1955, at p. 1969, paragraph 16 of the decision.

11 Judgment of 26 February 1976 in Case 65/75 Tasca [1976] ECK 291, at p. 309, paragraphs 12 to 14 of the decision.

12 Judgment of 5 April 1985 in Joined Cases 177 and 178/82 Van de Haar and Kaveka de Mee rn [1984] ECR 1797, at p. 1812, paragraph 13 of the decision.

13 Sec also the judgment of 6 March 1979 in Case 92/78 Simmenthal v Commission [1979] ECR 777, at pp. 783 and 813. Contrast (apparently) the judgment of 2 February 1988 in Joined Cases 67,68 and 70/85 Van der Kooy v Commission [1988] ECR 219.