Opinion of Advocate General Tesauro delivered on 15 July 1993

1 Original language: Italian.

2 OJ, English Special Ldition 1965 1966. p. 221

3 OJ 1983 L 163, p. 44.

4 OJ 1983 L 266, p. 1.

5 As the events material to this case loolt place in 1991, refer ence is made hereafter to the text of Articles 3 to 8 as amended bv Council Regulation No 935/86 of 25 March 1986 on the subsidy for oil seeds (OJ 1986 L 87, p. 5).

6 See most recently the judgments in Case C-127/91 CNTA [1992] ECR I-5681, paragraph 23; Case C-319/90 Pressler [1992] ECR I-203, paragraph 12, Case C-199/90 Italtrade [1991] ECR I-5545, paragraph 12; Case C 155/89 Philipp Brothers [1990] ECR I 3265, paragraph 34; and Case C-118/89 Imgenfelser 1990] ECR I-2637, paragraph 12.

7 Sec the second and fifth recitals in the preamble to Regulation (EEC) No 136/66 and the second recital in the preamble to Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83.

8 Case 66/82 [1983] ECR 395.

9 Case C-358/88 [1990] ECR I-1687.

10 Sec, inter alia, the judgments in Case 147/81 Merkur FleischImport [1982] ECR 1389; Case 15/83 Denkavil Nederland [1984] ECR 2171; Case C-155/89 Philipp Brothers, cited above; Casc C-Î99/90 Italtrade, cited above; and Case C-127/91 CNTA, cited above.

11 Sec, on this pomi, the judgment in Case 137/85 Maizena v BALM [1987] hCR 4587