Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) 12 April 1994

In Case C-150/93, REFERENCE to the Court under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty by the Cour d'Appel, Paris, for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that court between

THE COURT (Fourth Chamber), composed of: M. Diez de Velasco, President of the Chamber, C. N. Kakouris and P. J. G. Kapteyn (Rapporteur), Judges, Advocate General: G. Tesauro, Registrar: R. Grass,

after considering the written observations submitted on behalf of: the French Government, by Edwige Belliard, Assistant Director of the Legal Affairs Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Jean-Louis Falconi, Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, acting as Agents, the Commission of the European Communities, by Francisco de Sousa Fialho, a member of its Legal Service, and Virginia Melgar, a French official on secondment to the Legal Service, acting as Agents,

having regard to the report of the Judge-Rapporteur,

after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 27 January 1994,

gives the following

Judgment

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1 Language of the case: French