Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) 7 July 1988

In Case 55/87 REFERENCE to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the Verwaltungsgericht (Administrative Court), Frankfurt am Main (Federal Republic of Germany), for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between

THE COURT (First Chamber) composed of: G. Bosco, President of Chamber, R. Joliét and F. Schockweiler, Judges, Advocate General: G. F. Mancini Registrar: D. Louterman, Administrator

after considering the observations submitted on behalf of Alexander Moksel Import und Export GmbH & Co. Handels-KG, the plaintiff in the main proceedings, by V. Schiller, Rechtsanwalt, Cologne, the Commission of the European Communities, by its Legal Adviser D. Booss,

having regard to the Report for the Hearing and further to the hearing on 9 March 1988,

after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General delivered at the sitting on 1 June 1988,

gives the following

Judgment

First question (treatment of applications for licences with advance fixing lodged before a period of suspension of advance fixing but falling to be decided during that period)

Second question (interpretation of the term Werktag)

Third question (validity of Commission Regulation No 387/84 suspending advance fixing)

Fourth question (possibility of retroactively issuing licences with advance fixing)

Costs

1 Language of the Case: German.