Court of Justice 27 January 2000, C-352/98 P (Laboratoires pharmaceutiques Bergaderm SA and Jean-Jacques Goupil v Commission of the European Communities.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1. This appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance in Bergaderm and Goupil v Commission is notable principally for raising the question whether a directive may be deemed to be administrative rather than legislative in character for the purpose of determining the applicable standard of unlawfulness of the adopting