59More fundamentally, the applicant contends that the judgment in Portugal v Council flouts the clear wording of Article 228(7) of the EC Treaty (now, after amendment, Article 300(7) EC), and that it conflicts with wellestablished case-law to the effect that international agreements form an integral part of the Community legal order from the time they enter into force (Case 181/73 Haegeman [1974] ECR 449, paragraph 5, and Case 12/86 Demirel [1987] ECR 3719, paragraph 7; see also Opinion of Advocate General Saggio in Portugal v Council, ECR I-8397, cited above). That judgment, being based on a dualist concept of the relationship between the Community legal order and WTO law, is also irreconcilable with the judgment in Case C-53/96 Hermes International [1998] ECR I-3603, which takes a monist approach to the question of interpreting WTO law.
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