Opinion of Advocate General Darmon delivered on 3 February 1993

1 Original language: French.

2 Joined Cases 30/81 to 34/81 Commission ν Italy [1981] ECR 3379.

3 OJ 1981 L 194, p. 23.

4 Sec recitals 1 and 3 in the preamble to the Directive.

5 Gazzetta Ufficiale No 270 of 30 September 1982, p. 7081.

6 Gazzella Ufficiale of 15 February 1992, No 38.

7 Council Directive of 22 December 1986. amending Directive 75/439/EEC on the disposal of waste oils (OJ 1987 L 42, p. 43).

8 Sec, to thai effect, paragraph 13 of the judgment in Case 291/84 Commission v Kingdom of the Netherlands 11987] ECR 3483; sec also the judgment in Case 7/61 Commission v Italy [1961] ECR 317.

9 Sec p. 8 of the reasoned opinion (Frcnch translation).

10 Case 240/83 [1985] ECR 531.

11 Paragraph 29.

12 On the concept of regeneration, a complex chemical process which restores to used mineral oils all the properties they had before they were used, sec the judgment in Case 21/79 Commission ν Italy [1980] ECR 1.

13 See Article 3 of the Directive.

14 Gazzetta Ufficiale della Republica Italiana No 201 of 13 August 1966, p. 4091.

15 Gazzetta Ufficiale del Regno d'Italia No 301, p. 5995.

16 P. 7 of the French translation.

17 Sec. in particular, Case 169/87 Commission ν France[1988] ECR 4093. paragraph 12

18 Gazzetta Ufficiale No 140 of 16 June 1988.