Opinion of Mr Advocate General Van Gerven delivered on 11 July 1991

1 Original language: Dutch.

2 OJ 1978 L 304, p. 36.

3 For a more detailed report of the procedure before the Belgian Vredegerecht, I refer to the Report for the Hearing, pp. 2 and 3.

4 On this question, sec point 7 of the Opinion of the Procureur-Generaal at the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden, attached to the documents in the case.

5 [1984] ECR 3971.

6 In fact, the provision of security was required (and hence enforcement was ordered) without the court's having itself given judgment on the appeal (paragraphs 10 to 13).

7 OJ 1979 C 59, pp. 51 and 52.

8 The Procureur-Generaal at the Hoge Raad drew special attention to this question of equal treatment in point 11 of his Opinion, already referred to in footnote 3.

9 The relevant extracts from the Arrondissementsrechtbank's judgment are to be found in point 3 of the Opinion referred to in the previous footnote.

10 Jenard Report, OJ 1979 C 59, p. 52.

11 [1977] ECR 2175, paragraphs 32 and 33.

12 See points 14 and 15 of the Opinion of the Procureur-Generaal at the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden, referred to in footnote 3, and G. Müller in A. Bulow and K.-H. Böckstiegel, Internationaler Rechtsverkehr in Zivilund Handelssachen, No 606256.

13 In view of the fact that that would amount to a review of the substance of a foreign judgment.

14 Cf. Kaye, P. Civil Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (1987), p. 1643; O'Mallcy, S. and Layton, A. European Civil Practice (1989), p. 770 f., and Huet, A. note on the judgment in Case 43/77, Journal de Droit International, 1978, p. 403.

15 [1988] ECR 645, paragraph 4 of the operative part.