CELEX: 62006CJ0359
Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations
Directive 2001/45/EC
Social policy
Worker protection
Use of work equipment
Minimum health and safety requirements

Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, all the provisions necessary
to comply with Directive 2001/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2001, amending Council Directive
89/655/EEC concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for the use of work equipment by workers at work (second
individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) (OJ 1989 L 195, p. 46).
Operative part
The Court:

Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the period prescribed, all the necessary laws, regulations and administrative provisions
necessary to comply with Directive 2001/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2001, amending Council
Directive 89/655/EEC concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for the use of work equipment by workers at work
(second individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) regarding Burgenland and the Land
of Carinthia, and with regard to the Land of Lower Austria, by not, at the very least, informing the Commission of the European
Communities of those provisions within that period, the Republic of Austria has failed to fulfil its obligations under that
directive;

Orders the Republic of Austria to pay the costs.