CELEX: 62007CJ0005
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 2003/109/EC
Third-country nationals who are long-term residents
Failure to transpose within the prescribed period

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary
to comply with Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are
long-term residents (OJ 2004 L 16, p. 44).
Operative part
The Court:

By not having adopted, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply
with Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term
residents, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.

The Portuguese Republic is ordered to pay the costs.