Court of Justice 2 July 2009, C-169/08 (Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri v Regione Sardegna.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General I – Introduction 1. The present case is the first in which the Court has been asked by the Italian Constitutional Court, the Corte costituzionale, (2) to give a preliminary ruling pursuant to Article 234 EC. 2.