Opinion of Mr Advocate General Mischo delivered on 18 October 1990

1 Original language: French.

2 They have since been transferred to Appendix I to the Convention.

3 None of these words is emphasized in the original.

4 See Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2496/89 of 2 August 1989 on a prohibition on importing raw and worked ivory derived from the African elephant into the Community (OJ L 240, p. 5).

5 See Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3418/83 of 28 November 1983 laying provisions for the uniform issue and use of the documents required for the implementation in the Community of the Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (OJ 1983 L 344, p. 1).

6 See the judgment in Case C-48/89, Commission v Italian Republic [1990] ECR I-2425.