C-9/86

OPINION OF MR LENZ — CASE 9/86

OPINION OF MR ADVOCATE GENERAL LENZ delivered on 29 January 1987 *

Mr President, licence the Kingdom of Belgium has failed Members of the Court, to fulfil its obligations under the EEC 1. I can be very brief in my Opinion in the Treaty and should be ordered to pay the Treaty infringement proceedings with which costs. the Court has been concerned this morning. 3. The defendant has not expressly 2. The applicant, the Commission of the formulated any conclusions. European Communities, claims that the 4. Under Article 12 (1) of the directive the Court should declare that by failing to Member States had in good time and at the adopt within the prescribed period the laws, latest by 30 June 1982 to adopt the laws, regulations or administrative provisions regulations or administrative provisions necessary in order to comply with Council necessary for the implementation of the Directive 80/1263 of 4 December 1980' on directive from 1 January 1983. It is not the introduction of a Community driving denied that that was not done.

5. Accordingly I propose that a declaration should be made in the terms sought and that the defendant should be ordered to pay the costs.

* Translated from the German. 1 — Official Journal L 375 of 31 December 1980, p. 1.