Court of Justice 3 July 2001, C-503/99 (Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General Introduction 1. These three actions for infringement of the Treaties brought by the Commission involve the same legal issue: the compatibility with Community law of national systems which grant the executive certain prerogatives to intervene in the share structure and in the management of privatised undertakings in strategically