61988CJ0329_EN
Parties
Operative part
Parties
In Case C-329/88
Commission of the European Communities, represented by Maria Condou-Durande, Legal Adviser in its Legal Department, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the office of Georgios Kremlis, a member of its Legal Department, Wagner Centre, Kirchberg,
applicant,
v
Hellenic Republic, represented by N . Frangkakis, Legal Adviser to the Permanent Representation of Greece to the European Communities in Brussels, E . Marinou, a member of the Special Legal Department for the European Communities in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and A . Pliakos, Legal Adviser in the Ministry of Trade,
defendant,
APPLICATION for a declaration that by failing to adopt and to communicate to the Commission within the prescribed period the laws, regulations and administrative provisions needed to comply with Council Directive 84/450/EEC of 10 September 1984 relating to the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning misleading advertising ( Official Journal 1984, L 250, p . 17 ), the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under the EEC Treaty,
THE COURT
composed of : O . Due, President, C . N . Kakouris and M . Zuleeg ( Presidents of Chambers ), T . Koopmans, R . Joliet, J . C . Moitinho de Almeida, G . C . Rodríguez Iglesias, F . Grévisse and M . Diez de Velasco, Judges,
( the grounds of the judgment are not reproduced )
hereby :
Operative part
( 1 ) Declares that, by failing to adopt within the prescribed period the measures necessary to implement Council Directive 84/450/EEC of 10 September 1984 relating to the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning misleading advertising, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under the EEC Treaty;
( 2 ) Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs .