Court of Justice 16 May 2000, C-361/98 (Italian Republic v Commission of the European Communities.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General I Introduction 1. In the present application the Italian Government (hereinafter the applicant) is seeking annulment of Commission Decision 98/710/EC of 16 September 1998 (hereinafter the contested decision), under which Italy was prohibited from applying the traffic distribution rules for the airport system of Milan laid down in