Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 14 June 1988

1 Translated from the French.

2 OJ, English Special Edition 1967, p. 33.

3 Case 113/75 Frecassetti v Amministrazione dello finanze dello Stato [1976] ECR 983, at p. 993, paragraph 7.

4 Joined Cases 66, 127 and 128/79 Amministrazione delle finanze dello Stato v Srl Meridionale Industria Salumi [1980] ECR 1237, at p. 1260, paragraph 9.

5 Ibid., at p. 1264, paragraph 21.

6 OJ L 197, 3.8.1979, p. 1.

7 Joined Cases 212 to 217/80 Amministrazione delle finanze dello Stato v Srl Meridionale Industria Salumi and Others [1981] ECR 2735.

8 Paragraph 8.

9 Paragraph 12.

10 Paragraph 16.

11 Fifth paragraph of the request for a preliminary ruling from the tribunale civile e penale, Venice.

12 Case 112/77 [1978] ECR 1019.

13 Judgment of 14 May 1975 in Case 74/74 Comptoir nationale technique agricole v Commission [1975] ECR 533.

14 Case 112/77, cited above, and judgment of 16 May 1979 in Case 84/78 Tomadini v Amministrazione dello finanze dello Stato [1979] ECR 1801.

15 Case 265/78 H. Ferwerda BV v Produktschap voor Vee en Vlees [1980] ECR 617.

16 Paragraph 17.

17 Paragraphs 14, 18 and 21.

18 Joined Cases 205 to 215/82 [1983] ECR 2633.

19 Paragraph 30.

20 Joined Cases 205 to 215/82 [1983] ECR 2674.

21 P. 2675.

22 Joined Cases 66, 127 and 128/79, cited above, pp 1272 and 1273.

23 Joined Cases 212 to 217/80, cited above, p. 2757.

24 Case 5/82 [1982] ECR 4601.

25 Paragraph 22.

26 Judgment of 30 September 1982 in Case 108/81 Amylum v Council [1982] ECR 3107.

27 P. 3149.

28 Case 35/71 Schleswig-Holsteinische landwirtschaftliche Hauptgenossenschaft GmbH v Hauptzollamt Itzehoe [1971] ECR 1083.

29 Joined Cases 205 to 215/82 [1983] ECR 2665, paragraph 17.

30 Case 265/78 [1980] ECR 628, paragraph 8.

31 Joined Cases 205 to 215/82 [1983] ECR 2666, paragraph 21

32 Paragraph 24.

33 Case 265/78 [1980] ECR 628, paragraph 9 and joined Cases 66, 127 and 128/79 [1980] ECR 1262, paragraph 16.

34 See J. Boulouis and R. M. Chevallier: Grands aneli de la Cour de justice des Communautés européennes, Dalloz, Fourth Edition, 1987, Vol. 1, Nos 15 and 16.

35 Joined Cases 212 to 217/80, cited above.

36 Joined Cases 66, 127 and 128/79, [19801 ECR 1261 paragraph 10.

37 Paragraph 11.

38 Case 108/81 [1982] ECR 3130, paragraph 4.

39 Quelques observations à propos de la sécurité juridique in Du droit international au droit de l'intégration, Liber Amicorum Pierre Pescatore, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 1987, pp. 57 and 58.