Opinion of Advocate General Darmon delivered on 12 July 1994

1 Original language: French.

2 Council Directive of 26 March 1990 laying down the conditions governing the preparation, placing on the market and use of medicated feedingstuffs in the Community (OJ 1990 L 92, p. 42).

3 Judgments in Case C-378/92 Commission v Spam [1993] ECR I-5095 and Case C-303/93 Commission v Italy [1994] ECR I-1901, paragraph 7. See in that regard M. Blanquet: La conception de l'article 5, lex generalis inopérante, in Varticle 5 du Traité CEE — Recherche sur les obligations tle fidélité des Etats membres de la Communauté, LGDJ, 1994, p. 281.