Opinion of Advocate General Darmon delivered on 21 September 1993

1 Original language: French.

2 Council Directive 88/658/EEC of 14 December 1988 amending Directive 77/99/EEC on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in meat products (OJ 1988 L 382, p. 15).

3 Article 3.

4 Case 190/87 Oberkreisdirektor des Kreises Borken v Moorman [1988] ECR 4689, paragraph 22.

5 Council Directive of 10 February 1992 amending and updating Directive 77/99/EEC on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in meat products and amending Directive 64/433/EEC (OJ 1992 L 57, p. 1).

6 Case C-290/89 Commission v Belgium [1991] ECR I-2851, paragraph 9; sec also Case C-377/90 Commission v Belgium [1992] ECR I-1233, paragraph 6.

7 See, in particular, Case 283/86 Commission v Belgium [1988] ECR 3271 and Case C-316/92 Commission v Germany [1993] ECR I-3659.