Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 5 March 1991

1 Original language: French.

2 Judgment of 24 June 1986 in Case 150/85 Jacqueline Drake* Chit/Adjudication Officer [1986] ECR 1995.

3 Judgment of 27 June 1989 in Joined Cases 48/88, 106/88 and 107/88 Achterberg-te Mete and Others v Sociale Verzekeringsbank Amsterdam [1989] ECR 1963.

4 OJ 1979 L 6, p. 24.

5 Section 36(2)(b) of the Social Security Act 1975.

6 Ibid., paragraph 22.

7 Ibid., paragraph 11.

8 Judgment of 24 June 1987 in Case 384/85 CUrke v Chief Adjudication Officer [1987] ECR 2865.

9 Paragraph 3.

10 The date by which national law had to comply with Directive 79/7.

11 Paragraph 10; see also the judgment of 4 December 1986 in Case 71/85 State of the Netherlands v Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging [1986] ECR 3855, paragraphs 21 and 22; judgment of 24 March 1987 in Case 286/85 McDermott and Cotter v Minister for Social Welfare and Attorney General [1987] ECR 1453, paragraphs 18 and 19; judgment of 8 March 1988 Dik and Others v College van Burgemeester [1988] ECR 1601, paragraph 9.

12 [1987] ECR 2875, paragraph 30.