Opinion of Advocate General Darmon delivered on 18 March 1992

1 Original language: French.

2 Official Gazette of the Hellenic Republic, A'222.

3 Case 8/74 Procureur du Roi v Dassonville [1974] ECR 837.

4 Defence, p. 3 of the French translation.

5 Official Gazette of the Hellenic Republic, A'78.

6 Case 272/86 Commission v Greece [1988] ECR 4875.

7 Ibid., paragraph 30. See also the judgment in Case 97/81 Commission v Netherlands [1982] ECR 1818, paragraph 7, and lastly the judgment in Case 33/90 Commission v Italy [1991] ECR I-5987, paragraphs 18 to 20.

8 On this point see my Opinion in the abovementioned Case 33/90, paragraphs 27 and 28.