Opinion of Mr Advocate General Tesauro delivered on 2 October 1990

1 Original language: Italian.

2 OJ 1979 L 33, p. 1.

3 Judgment in Case 35/85 Procureur de la République v Tissier [1986]ECR 1207, paragraph 9.

4 See the second, third, fourth and seventh recitals in the preamble.

5 It should be noted that Directive 79/112/EEC was amended by Directive 89/395/EEC of 14 June 1989 (OJ 1989 L 186, p. 17), which extended the scope of the directive to foodstuffs intended for supply to restaurants, hospitals, canteens and other similar mass caterers.

6 See primarily the judgment in Case 8/74 Procureur du Roi v Dasionville [1974] ECR 837, paragraph 5.

7 Judgment in Case 286/81 Oostboek's Uitgevtrmaatichappij [1982] ECR 4575, paragraph 15.

8 Judgment in Case 120/78 Rewe v Bundtmonopolvtrwalaung fir Branntwein [1979] ECR 649, paragraph 8.