CELEX: 62008CJ0504
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 2006/70/EC
Civil servants and politicians
Money laundering
Incomplete transposition

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the measures necessary to
comply with Commission Directive 2006/70/EC of 1 August 2006 laying down implementing measures for Directive 2005/60/EC of
the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the definition of politically exposed person and the technical criteria
for simplified customer due diligence procedures and for exemption on grounds of a financial activity conducted on an occasional
or very limited basis (OJ 2006 L 214, p. 29).
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 Commission Directive 2006/70/EC of 1 August 2006 laying down implementing measures for Directive
2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the definition of ‘politically exposed person’ and the
technical criteria for simplified customer due diligence procedures and for exemption on grounds of a financial activity conducted
on an occasional or very limited basis, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 5 of that
directive;
2.
Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.