Court of Justice 14 April 2005, C-329/03 (Trapeza tis Ellados AE v Banque Artesia.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1. ‘Gentlemen prefer bonds’, according to former US Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. (2) The Bank of Greece, however, has no such preference, or did not in 1982: the purchase of bonds from convertible drachma accounts required special authorisation.