Opinion of Advocate General Darmon delivered on 3 July 1990

1 Original language: French.

2 On which I am also delivering my Opinion today (judgment of 18 October 1990 in Joined Cases C-297/88 and C-197/89 [1990] ECR I-3763, at p. I-3778).

3 Judgment of 26 September 1985 [1985] ECR 3001.

4 Judgment in Case 166/73 Rheitinmühlen-Dmseldorf v Einfuhr-lind Vorratsstelle fur Getreide und Futtermittel [1974] ECR 33, at p. 38, paragraph 2, my emphasis.

5 The truly original innovation of the Rome Treaties was to establish, as regards the application of Community law, a direct relationship between judicial powers in the form of a relationship which is much more than simple consultation: it is a relationship on the basis of jurisdiction and powers, in P. Pescatore: Le droit de l'intégration 1972, A. W. Sijthoff-Leiden, Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales, Geneva, my emphasis.