CELEX: 62007CJ0510
Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations
Directive 68/414/EEC
Article 1(1)
Obligation to maintain minimum stocks of petroleum products
Breach

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to comply with the obligation to stock petroleum products under
Article 1(1) of Council Directive 68/414/EEC of 20 December 1968 imposing an obligation on Member States of the EEC to maintain
minimum stocks of crude oil and/or petroleum products (OJ English Special Edition 1968 (II), p. 586), as amended and then
codified by Council Directive 2006/67/EC of 24 July 2006 (OJ 2006 L 217, p. 8) – Nature and extent of the obligation to stock – Discrepancy
between the figures transmitted by the Member State concerned and the data provided by Eurostat – Method of calculating stocks
of petroleum products and the level of internal consumption of those products.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by failing to adopt all such laws, regulations or administrative provisions as may be appropriate to maintain
within the Community at all times the level of stocks of petroleum products in the second category of petroleum products listed
in Article 2 of Council Directive 68/414/EEC of 20 December 1968 imposing an obligation on Member States of the EEC to maintain
minimum stocks of crude oil and/or petroleum products, as amended by Council Directive 98/93/EC of 14 December 1998, the Kingdom
of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 1(1) of that directive;
2.
Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.