# C_2007170EN.01000402.xml

| 21.7.2007 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 170/4 |
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Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 7 June 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium

(Case C-254/05)( 1 )

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Articles 28 EC and 30 EC - Quantitative restrictions on imports - Measures having equivalent effect - Automatic fire detection systems with point detectors - Requirement of conformity to a national standard - National approval procedure)

(2007/C 170/06)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: B. Stromsky, acting as Agent)

Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: M. Wimmer, Agent)

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Article 28 EC — National regulations requiring automatic fire detection systems with point detectors lawfully manufactured or marketed in another Member State which do not have the ‘EC’ mark to comply with the national standard, be subject to type approval and, in that connection, undergo tests and checks already carried out in another Member State

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

| 1. | Declares that, by requiring that automatic fire detection systems with point detectors which were lawfully manufactured or marketed in another Member State but which do not have the CE marking:
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conform with Belgian standard NBN S 21-100 relating to the design of general automatic fire detection systems with point detectors, of September 1986, as modified by Addendum No 2 thereto of August 1996, —
be subject to approval by BOSEC (Belgian Organisation for Security Certification), an obstacle made worse by the disproportionate costs which that approval incurs, and —
undergo tests and checks in connection with that type approval which, essentially, duplicate the controls which have already been carried out under other procedures in another Member State, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 28 EC; | — | conform with Belgian standard NBN S 21-100 relating to the design of general automatic fire detection systems with point detectors, of September 1986, as modified by Addendum No 2 thereto of August 1996, | — | be subject to approval by BOSEC (Belgian Organisation for Security Certification), an obstacle made worse by the disproportionate costs which that approval incurs, and | — | undergo tests and checks in connection with that type approval which, essentially, duplicate the controls which have already been carried out under other procedures in another Member State, |
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| — | conform with Belgian standard NBN S 21-100 relating to the design of general automatic fire detection systems with point detectors, of September 1986, as modified by Addendum No 2 thereto of August 1996, | | | | | | |
| — | be subject to approval by BOSEC (Belgian Organisation for Security Certification), an obstacle made worse by the disproportionate costs which that approval incurs, and | | | | | | |
| — | undergo tests and checks in connection with that type approval which, essentially, duplicate the controls which have already been carried out under other procedures in another Member State, | | | | | | |

| 2. | Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs. |
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( 1 )  OJ C 205, 20.8.2005.

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