Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 14 December 2000 in Case C-55/99: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Free movement of goods — Measures having equivalent effect — Medical reagents — Compulsory registration procedure applicable to all reagents — Obligation to state the registration number on the external packaging and the notice accompanying each reagent)
Date: 2001-05-05
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European Commission, France, action for failure to fulfil an obligation, labelling, medicinal product, public health

5.5.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 134/1

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(Information)

COURT OF JUSTICE

COURT OF JUSTICE

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Sixth Chamber)

of 14 December 2000

in Case C-55/99: Commission of the European Communi-
ties v French Republic (1)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Free
movement of goods — Measures having equivalent effect —
Medical reagents — Compulsory registration procedure
applicable to all reagents — Obligation to state the regis-
tration number on the external packaging and the notice
accompanying each reagent)

(2001/C 134/01)

(Language of the case: French)

(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
in the European Court Reports)

In Case C-55/99: Commission of the European Communities
(Agents: R.B. Wainwright and O. Couvert-Castéra) v French
Republic (Agents: K. Rispal-Bellanger and R. Loosli-Surrans) —
application for a declaration that, by introducing in Decree
No 96-351 of 19 April 1996 concerning the reagents men-
tioned in Article L.761-14-1 of the Code de la Santé Publique
(Code of Public Health) (JORF, 26 April 1996, p. 6386) a
registration procedure for all medical
reagents, and by
imposing in that decree the obligation to state the registration
number on the
and the notice
external packaging
accompanying each reagent, the French Republic has failed to
fulfil its obligations under Article 30 of the EC Treaty (now,
after amendment, Article 28 EC) — the Court (Sixth Chamber),
composed of: V. Skouris, President of the Second Chamber,
acting as President of
(Rapporteur),
J.-P. Puissochet and F. Macken, Judges; N. Fennelly, Advocate
General; L. Hewlett, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given
a judgment on 14 December 2000, in which it:

the Sixth Chamber

1. Declares that, by imposing in Decree No 96-351 of 19 April
1996 concerning the reagents mentioned in Article L.761-14-
1 of the Code de la Santé Publique the obligation to state the
registration number on the external packaging and to mention
that registration on the notice accompanying each medical
reagent, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations
under Article 30 of the EC Treaty (now, after amendment,
Article 28 EC);

2. Dismisses the remainder of the application;

3. Orders the French Republic and the Commission of

the

European Communities to bear their own costs.

(1) OJ C 100 of 10.4.1999.

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Fifth Chamber)

of 14 December 2000

in Case C-99/99: Italian Republic v Commission of the
European Communities (1)

(Action for annulment — Regulation (EC) No 2815/98 —
Marketing standards for olive oil)

(2001/C 134/02)

(Language of the case: Italian)

(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
in the European Court Reports)

In Case C-99/99: Italian Republic (Agents: U. Leanza, G. Castel-
lani Pastoris, and O. Fiumara) v Commission of the European