Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 18 June 1991

1 Original language: French.

2 Regulation No 136/66/EEC of the Council of 22 September 1966 on the common organization of the market in oils and fats (OJ, English Special Edition 1965-66, p. 231), last amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1858/88 of 30 June 1988 (OJ 1988 L 166, p. 10).

3 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3472/85 of 10 December 1985 on the buying-in and storage of olive oil by intervention agencies (OJ 1985 L 333, p. 5).

4 GURI (Official Journal of the Italian Republic) No 295, 2.12.1960, p. 4411.

5 GURI (Official Journal of the Italian Republic) No 320, 10.12.1963, p. 5850.

6 Decision of 18 June 1988, GURI (Official Journal of the Italian Republic) No 146, 23.6.1988, General Series, p. 18.

7 Annexed io the Commission's statement.

8 C(90) 2337 (OJ 1990 L 350, p. 82).

9 Case 214/86 Cretan Commiuion [1989] ECR 369.

10 Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April 1970 on ihe financing of the common agricultural policy (OJ, English Special Edition 1970 (I), p. 218).

11 CaseC-55/91.

12 Joliet : Le droit institutionnel des Communautés européennes. Le contentieux, 1981, Faculté de Liège, p. 196; see also Vandersanden, Barav: Contentieux communautaire, Bruylant, Brussels, 1977, p. 304; Isaac: Droit communautaire général, Mason, Paris, Third Edition, p. 271; contra, Waelbroeck, Louis, Vignes, Dewost: Le droit de la Communauté économique européenne, vol. 10, La Cour de Justice, part 1, p. 190.

13 Vandersanden, Barav, ibid.

14 Vandersanden, Barav, ibid.