CELEX: 62007CJ0284
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 2005/51/EC
Public procurement
Procedures for the award of contracts
Failure to transpose within the prescribed period

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, the measures necessary to
comply with Commission Directive 2005/51/EC of 7 September 2005 amending Annex XX to Directive 2004/17/EC and Annex VIII to
Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on public procurement (OJ 2005 L 257, p. 127).
Operative part
The Court

Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission
Directive 2005/51/EC of 7 September 2005 amending Annex XX to Directive 2004/17/EC and Annex VIII to Directive 2004/18/EC
of the European Parliament and of the Council on public procurement, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations
under that directive;

Orders the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.