Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 6 July 1988

1 Translated from the French.

2 OJ L 38, 9.2.1977, p. 1.

3 Judgment of 27 September 1984 in Case 99/83 Fioravanti v Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato [1984] ECR 3939. In that judgment the Court interpreted Article 36 of Regulation No 542/69 of the Council of 18 March 1969 on Community transit (Official Journal, English Special Edition 1969 (I), p. 125), the wording of which is identical to that of Article 36 of Regulation No 222/77.

4 Paragraph 22.