Opinion of Mr Advocate General Lenz delivered on 6 February 1992

1 Original language: German.

2 Council Directive of 26 July 1971 (OJ, English Special Edition 1971 (II), p. 682), amended by Council Directive 89/440/EEC of 18 July 1989 (OJ 1989 L 210, p. 1) which in particular raised the threshold value from which contracts arc subject to die directive from ECU 1000000 to ECU 5000000.

3 See Case 249/81 Commission v Ireland [1982] ECR 4005, Case 222/82 Apple and Pear Development Council v Lewis [1983] ECR 4083 and the judgment of 11 July 1991 in Case C-247/89 Commission v Portugal, not yet published, especially point 15 et seq. of the Opinion.

4 Directive 71/305 as completed by the Act of Accession of Spain.

5 Case 199/85 Commission v Italy [1987] ECR 1039, poini 36 of the Opinion at p. 1054.

6 Case 199/85, cited above, paragraph 14.