Opinion of Advocate General Van Gerven delivered on 9 March 1994

1 Original language: French.

2 OJ 1985 L 175, p. 40.

3 Mémorial A 1990. p. 310.

4 Mémorial A 1990, p. 316.

5 Judgment in Case 102/79 Commission v Belgium [1980] ECR 1473, and more recently the judgment in Case C-381/92 Commission v Ireland [1994] ECR I-215. at paragraph 7.

6 Consistent case-law and, most recently, the judgment in Case C-303/92 Commission v Netherlands [1993] ECR I-4793, at paragraph 9.

7 Consistent case-law and, most recently, the judgment in Case C-280/89 Commission v Ireland [1992] ECR I-6185, at paragraph 7.