Opinion of Advocate General Tesauro delivered on 7 July 1992

1 Original language: Italian.

2 Judgment in Case 113/86 Commission v Italy [1988] ECR 607, paragraph 11; judgment in Case 42/82 Commission v France [1983] ECR 1013, paragraph 20.

3 Judgment in Case 45/64 Commission v Italy [1965] ECR 857.

4 Judgment in Case C-42/89 Commission v Belgium [1990] ECR I-2821, paragraphs 9, 10 and 11.

5 See, in particular, the judgments in Case 168/78 Commission v France [1980] ECR 347, paragraph 4, in Case 169/78 Commission v Italy [1980] ECR 385, paragraph 4, and in Case 171/78 Commission v Denmark [1980] ECR 447, paragraph 4.

6 Judgment in Case 20/76 Schüttle v Finanzamt Freudenstadt [1977] ECR 247, paragraph 22.