Treaties — Effect in municipal law — Priority of treaty provisions over conflicting provisions of municipal law — EEC Treaty, 1957 — Legislation enacted by EEC institutions — Status under municipal law — Directives — Conflict between provisions of directive and subsequently enacted municipal law — Whether national legislation incompatible with the requirements of a Community directive must be declared inapplicable by municipal administrative courts

Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — EEC Treaty, 1957 — EEC legislation — Directives — Effect in municipal legal order — French Constitution, Article 55 — Nature of legal order established by Treaty

Treaties — Conclusion and operation — Acts of institutions established by EEC Treaty — Method of implementation under municipal law — EEC Council directive — Conflicting national legislation — Judicial review by administrative courts — Sanction of illegality for incompatible national legislation

State responsibility — Responsibility based on fault — Enactment of municipal law in violation of EEC legislation — Responsibility of French State for failure to meet international obligations — Liability of national authorities to pay compensation when noncompliance with Community norms causes loss to individuals

Damages — Violation of European Community law — Failure of authorities in Member State to comply with provisions of Community directive — Entitlement of individuals to compensation from national authorities for loss suffered — Measure of damages — Lucrum cessans

International organizations — EEC — Powers — Legislation — Directives enacted by Council — Effect in municipal legal order — Failure by Member States to correctly implement provisions of directive — Proceedings before national courts — Whether such failure giving rise to claim for damages by individuals against Member State

International organizations — EEC — Institutions — Court of Justice of European Communities — Effect of decisions in municipal legal order of Member States

Economics, trade and finance — State commercial monopoly — European Community rules on freedom of trade — Council Directive No 72/464 on Manufactured Tobacco — Effect on State tobacco monopoly — Fixing of prices for imported tobacco by national authorities in violation of directive — Annulment of ministerial decisions by administrative courts — Whether any entitlement to claim compensation from national authorities for companies affected — The law of France