Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 20 March 1990

1 Original language: French.

2 Council Directive 64/432/EEC of 26 June 1964 on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine (OJ, English Special Edition 1963-64, p. 164).

3 Judgment in Case 124/81 Commission v United Kingdom [1983] ECR 203, paragraph 9, emphasis added.

4 Ibidem, paragraph 10.

5 Judgment in Case 35/76 Simmenthal SpA v Italian Minister for Finance [1976] ECR 1871.

6 Ibidem, paragraph 27.

7 Ibidem, paragraph 29.

8 Ibidem, paragraphs 30 and 32. emphasis added

9 Ibidem, paragraphs 35 and 36

10 COM(88) 383 final.

11 See, in that connection, Anicle 14(2) of the proposal for a regulation.

12 Council Directive 81/389/EEC of 12 May 1981 establishing measures necessary for the implementation of Directive 77/489/EEC on the protection of animals during international transport (OJ L 150, 6.6.1981, p. 1).

13 Case 124/81 Commisíion v United Kingdom, cited above, paragraph 18.

14 Case 124/81 Commission v United Kingdom, cited above