Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 8 May 1990
1 Original language: French.
2 Judgment in Case 94/87 Commission v Germany [1989) ECR 175
3 Commission Decision 88/174/EEC concerning aid which the Land of Baden-Wumemberg has provided to an undertaking producing semi-finished and finished aluminium products (OJ 1988 L 79, p 29)
4 Judgment in Case 52/84 Commission v Belgium [1986] ECR 89.
5 Case 94/87, cited above, paragraph 10.
6 Ibid., paragraph 11.
7 Paragraph 12.
8 Rejoinder, pp. 5 and 6.
9 Rejoinder, p. 2.
10 Judgment in Joined Cases 205/82 to 215/82 [1983] ECR 2633, paragraphs 30 to 32.
11 Reply, p. 2.
12 Article 8(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of the Council of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (OJ, English Special Edition, 1970 (I), p. 218).
13 See. for example, Case 77/76 Cucchi v Avez [1977] ECR 987. Case 177/78 Pigs and Bacon Commission v McCarren [1979] ECR 2161, Case 61/79 Amministrazione delle finanze dello Stato v Denkavit italian a [1980] ECR 1205, Case 130/79 Express Dairy Foods v Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce [1980] 1887 and Joined Cases 331/85, 376/85 and 378/85 Bianco 6 Guard v Directeur general des douanes et droits indirects [1988] ECR 1099
14 Rejoinder, p. 5.
15 Joined Cases 205/82 to 215/82, cited above, paragraph 30.
16 Joined Cases 205/82 to 215/82, cued above, paragraph 32.
17 Joined Cases 205/82 to 215/82, cued above, paragraph 22
18 In that connection, see paragraphs 3 and 4 of my Opinion, delivered on 29 November 1988 in Case 94/87 [1989] ECR 175, cited above.
19 Case 52/84, cited above.
20 Case 94/87, cited above, points 14 to 18.
21 OJ 1983 C 318, p. 3.
22 Case C-301/87 France v Commission [1990] ECR I-307 (hereinafter referred to as the Boussac case).
23 CaseC-142/87 Belgium v Commission [1990] ECR I-959.
24 Case C-301/87, cited above, paragraph 19; Case C-142/87, cited above, paragraph 15.
25 In this connection, see the Opinion of Mr Advocate General Tesauro in Case C-142/87, cited above, point 8.
26 These arc the figures given by Sir Leon Brittan in his answer to Written Question No 181/88 (OJ 1989 C 151, P 9).
27 Second paragraph of Article 173 of the EEC Treaty.
28 See, for example, the judgment in Case 149/77 Defrenne v Sabena [WZ] ECV. 1365.
29 Judgment in Case 310/85 [1987] ECR 901, paragraphs 20 to 25.
30 Case C-301/87 France Commission, cited above
31 See p. 5 of the Defence.
32 See, for example, in the Deufil judgment, cited above, the discussion as to the nature of the aids for the purposes of Article 92(1).
33 Paragraph 48(4) of the Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz, quoted by the German Government in its Defence, p. 6.
34 Defence, p. 9.
35 Rejoinder, p. 8.
36 See, for example, the judgments in Case 199/82 Amministrazione delle finanze dello Stato v San Giorgio [1983] ECR 3595 and in Case 309/85 Barra v Belgium [1988] ECR 355.
37 Case C-142/87, cited above.
38 Paragraph 61, emphasis added.
39 Case 52/84, cued above, paragraph 11.
40 Paragraph 61