Judgment of the Court 5 October 1988

In Case 53/87 REFERENCE to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the tribunale civile e penale (Civil and Criminal District Court), Milan, for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between

THE COURT composed of: Lord Mackenzie Stuart, President, G. Bosco, O. Due and J. C. Moitinho de Almeida (Presidents of Chambers), T. Koopmans, U. Everling, K. Bahlmann, Y. Galmot, R. Joliét, T. F. O'Higgins and F. A. Schockweiler, Judges, Advocate General: J. Mischo Registrar: D. Louterman, Administrator

after considering the observations submitted on behalf of Consorzio italiano della componentistica di ricambio per autoveicoli and Maxicar, the plaintiffs in the main proceedings, by Marino Bin, Fabio Bortolotti, Guido Colonna, Giorgio Floridia, Claudio Maria Prado and Enrico Radice, Régie nationale des usines Renault, the defendant in the main proceedings, by Mario Franzosi, Xavier Desjeux, Antoine Braun and Francis Herbert, the French Government by Edwige Belliard and Philippe Pouzoulet, acting as Agents, the Government of the Federal, Republic of Germany, by Martin Seidel, Ministerialrat in the Ministry of the Economy, acting as Agent, the Spanish Government, by Francisco Javier Condo de Saro, Director-General for European Community Legal and Institutional Coordination, and Rafael García-Valdecasas Fernández, Head of the State Legal Department, acting as Agent, the Italian Government, by Ivo M. Braguglia, avvocato dello Stato, the United Kingdom by; H. R. L. Purse, of the Treasury Solicitor's Department, acting as Agent, the Commission, by Giuliano Marenco and Karen Banks, acting as Agents,

having regard to the Report for the Hearing and further to the hearing on 18 May 1988,

after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General delivered at the sitting on 21 June 1988,

gives the following

Judgment

The first question

The second question

Costs

1 Language of the Case: Italian.