CELEX: 62009CJ0009
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Public Health
Directive 2004/23/EC
Setting standards of quality and safety for the donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human tissues and cells
Failure to transpose within the prescribed period

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt or to communicate, within the prescribed period, the measures
necessary to comply with Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on setting standards
of quality and safety for the donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human
tissues and cells (OJ 2004 L 102, p. 48).
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by not adopting, within the prescribed period, all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
to comply with Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on setting standards of
quality and safety for the donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human tissues
and cells, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
2.
Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.