Judgment of the Court 15 March 1994

In Case C-387/92, REFERENCE to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Valenciana (Spain) for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between

THE COURT, composed of: O. Due, President, G. F. Mancini, J. C. Moitinho de Almeida and M. Diez de Velasco (Presidents of Chambers), C. N. Kakouris, R. Joliét, F. A. Schockweiler (Rapporteur), G. C. Rodríguez Iglesias, M. Zuleeg, P. J. G. Kapteyn and J. L. Murray, Judges, Advocate General: C. O. Lenz, Registrar: L. Hewlett, Administrator,

after considering the written observations submitted on behalf of: the Ayuntamiento de Valencia, by Arturo Monfort, Abogado del Colegio de Abogados de Valencia, the Spanish Government, by Alberto José Navarro González, Director-General for Coordination in Matters involving Community Law and Institutions, and Miguel Bravo-Ferrer Delgado, Abogado del Estado, member of the State Legal Department for Contentious Community Matters, both acting as Agents, the Hellenic Government, by Vassilios Kontolaimos, Deputy Legal Adviser of the State Legal Service, and Ioannis Chalkias, Legal Agent of the State Legal Service, both acting as Agents, the Commission of the European Communities, by Francisco Enrique González Diaz and Daniel Calleja Crespo, members of its Legal Service, both acting as Agents,

having regard to the Report for the Hearing,

after hearing the oral observations of the Hellenic Government, the Spanish Government and the Commission at the hearing on 12 October 1993,

after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 11 January 1994,

gives the following

Judgment

Costs

1 Language of the case: Spanish.