Opinion of Mr Advocate General Lenz delivered on 10 October 1989

1 Original language German

2 See the judgments of 22 March 1977 in Case 78/76 Steinike und Weinhg v Germany (1977] ECR 595. at p 613, of 25 September 1979 in Case 232/78 Commission v France [1979] ECR 2729. and of 14 February 1984 m Case 325/82 Commission v Germany [1984] ECR 777, at p. 793. See also Article 55 of the Constitution of the French Republic of 4 October 1958

3 OJ 1978, L 222, p 11

4 See, in this connection, the Fifth Annual Report to the European Parliament on Commission monitoring of the application of Community law, p. 2 et seq. of the roneoed version, and the Fourth Progress Report of the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament concerning the implementation of the Commission's White Paper on the completion of the internal market, p. 4, point 14 et seq.

5 Last recital in the preamble to, and Article 55(1) of, the directive.