CELEX: 62008CJ0575
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 2005/56/EC
Cross-border mergers of limited liability companies
Failure to transpose within the prescribed period

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to take or communicate, within the prescribed period, the measures
necessary to comply with Directive 2005/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on cross-border
mergers of limited liability companies (OJ 2005 L 310, p. 1).
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions
necessary to comply with Directive 2005/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on cross-border
mergers of limited liability companies, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
2.
Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.