Opinion of Mr Advocate General Mischo delivered on 14 November 1990

1 Original language: French.

2 Council Directive of 5 November 1963 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning the preservatives authorized for use in foodstuffs intended for human consumption (OJ, English Special Edition 1963-64, p. 99).

3 Judgment in Case 88/79 Ministère public v Grunert [1980] ECR 1827, at p. 1836, paragraph 8.

4 Council Directive of 27 June 1967 on the use of certain preservatives for the surface treatment of citrus fruit and on the control measures to be used for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of preservatives in and on citrus fruit (OJ, English Special Edition 1967, p. 169).

5 See, inter alia, the judgments in Case 247/84 Molle [1985] ECR 3887, paragraph 16 and in Case 304/84 Ministére public v Muller [1986] ECR 1511, paragraph 14.

6 See the judgment in Case 8/74 Procureur du Roi v Dassonville [1974] ECR 837.

7 Judgment in Case 178/84 Commission v Germany [1987] ECR 1227, at p. 1262.

8 See, for example, the judgment in Muller, cited above.

9 Sec footnote 6.