Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) 2 March 1989

In Case 359/87 REFERENCE to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the Cour de cassation (Court of Cassation) of France for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between

THE COURT (Sixth Chamber) composed of: T. Koopmans, President of Chamber, T. F. O'Higgins, G. F. Mancini, F. A. Schockweiler and M. Díez de Velasco, Judges, Advocate General: C. O. Lenz Registrar: H. A. Rühl, Principal Administrator

after considering the observations submitted on behalf of Pietro Pinna, by A. Lyon-Caen, F. Fabiani and L. Liard, SCP, lawyers with a right of audience before the conseil ďEtat and the Cour de cassation, the Caisse d'allocations familiales de la Savoie, by Desaché-Gatineau SCP, lawyer with a right of audience before the conseil d'Etat and the Cour de cassation, the Government of the French Republic, in the written procedure, by Jean-Pierre Puissochet and Claude Chavance and, in the oral procedure, by Régis de Gouttes and Claude Chavance, the Government of the Italian Republic, by Luigi Ferrari Bravo, Head of the Department for Contentious Diplomatic Affairs, acting as Agent, assisted by Pier Giorgio Ferri, avvocato dello Stato, the Government of the Hellenic Republic, in the written procedure, by Iannos Cranidiotis, Special Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, assisted by Ioanna Galanis-Marangoudakis, Legal Adviser in the European Communities Litigation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and, in the oral procedure, by N. Fragakis, acting as Agent, the Government of the Portuguese Republic, by L. Inez Fernandes, Director of Legal Affairs in the Directorate-General for European Community Affairs, L. Real, a lawyer in the same Directorate-General, and S. Pizarro, Deputy Director-General of the Department for International Relations and Social Security Conventions, the Commission of the European Communities, by its Legal Adviser, Dimitrios Gouloussis,

having regard to the Report for the Hearing and further to the hearing on 20 October 1988,

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

gives the following

Judgment

Costs

1 Language of the case: French.