Opinion of Advocate General Darmon delivered on 24 February 1994

1 Original language: French.

2 Regulation laying down detailed rules for granting private storage aid for beef and veal (OJ, English Special Edition 1968 II, p. 354).

3 Regulation on the granting at a standard rate fixed in advance of private storage aid in respect of beef carcases, half carcases and compensated quarters (OJ 1977 L 286, p. 20).

4 Regulation on the granting at a standard rate fixed in advance of private storage aid for beef forequarters (OJ 1978 L 170, p. 20).

5 See the fifth and fourth recital of those regulations respectively.

6 Judgment of 24 September 1985 in Case 181/84 Man (Sugar) v IBAP [1985] ECR 2889.

7 Paragraph 20.

8 Judgment of 23 February 1983 in Case 66/82 Fromançais v FORMA [1983] ECR 395.

9 Paragraph 8.

10 Order for reference II(l)(d).

11 Ibid., first paragraph of II(1).

12 Judgment of 15 December 1987 (Case 332/85 Germany v Commission [1987] ECR 5143, paragraph 23).

13 See the judgment of the Court of 1 February 1994 (Case C-374/92 Irsfeld v Bundesanstalt für landwirtschaftliche Marktordnung [1994] ECR I-301, paragraph 24).