Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 8 March 2001 in Case C-176/00: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to transpose Directives 96/24/EC and 96/25/EC)
Date: 2001-06-30
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European Commission, Greece, action for failure to fulfil an obligation, agro-industry, animal nutrition, marketing

C 186/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

30.6.2001

Council Directive 77/388/EEC of 17 May 1977 on the
harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to
turnover taxes — Common system of value added tax: uniform
basis of assessment (OJ 1977 L 145, p. 1) — the Court (First
Chamber), composed of: M. Wathelet (Rapporteur), President
of the Chamber, P. Jann and L. Sevo´ n, Judges; A. Saggio,
Advocate General; H. von Holstein, Deputy Registrar, for the
Registrar, has given a judgment on 8 March 2001, in which it
has ruled:

A commitment assumed by an insurance company to carry out, in
return for remuneration at market rates, the business activities of
another insurance company, which is its 100 % subsidiary and which
would continue to conclude insurance contracts in its own name, does
not constitute an insurance transaction within the meaning of
Article 13B(a) of Sixth Council Directive 77/388/EEC of 17 May
1977 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States
relating to turnover taxes — Common system of value added tax:
uniform basis of assessment.

(1) OJ C 246 of 28.8.1999.

Pergola, President of the Chamber, S. von Bahr (Rapporteur)
and C.W.A. Timmermans, Judges; J. Mischo, Advocate General;
R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 8 March 2001, in
which it:

1. Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period,
the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to
comply with Council Directives 96/24/EC of 29 April 1996
amending Directive 79/373/EEC on the marketing of com-
pound feedingstuffs and 96/25/EC of 29 April 1996 on the
circulation of feed materials, amending Directives 70/524/EEC,
74/63/EEC, 82/471/EEC and 93/74/EEC and repealing
Directive 77/101/EEC, the Hellenic Republic has failed to
fulfil its obligations under those directives;

2. Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 211 of 22.7.2000.

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Fourth Chamber)

of 8 March 2001

in Case C-176/00: Commission of the European Communi-
ties v Hellenic Republic (1)

(Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Failure
to transpose Directives 96/24/EC and 96/25/EC)

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Fifth Chamber)

of 15 March 2001

in Case C-444/98 (reference for a preliminary ruling from
the Arrondissementsrechtbank te Roermond): R. J. de
Laat v Bestuur van het Landelijk Instituut Sociale Verzek-
eringen (1)

(Social security for migrant workers — Regulation (EEC)
No 1408/71 — Frontier worker — ‘Partially unemployed’
— Meaning)

(2001/C 186/03)

(2001/C 186/04)

(Language of the case: Greek)

(Language of the case: Dutch)

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

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

In Case C-176/00: Commission of the European Communities
(Agent: M. Condou-Durande) v Hellenic Republic (Agents:
G. Kanellopoulos and D. Tsagkaraki) — application for a
declaration that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and
administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council
Directives 96/24/EC of 29 April 1996 amending Directive
79/373/EEC on the marketing of compound feedingstuffs (OJ
1996 L 125, p. 33) and 96/25/EC of 29 April 1996 on the
circulation of feed materials, amending Directives 70/524/EEC,
74/63/EEC, 82/471/EEC and 93/74/EEC and repealing Direc-
tive 77/101/EEC (OJ 1996 L 125, p. 35), the Hellenic Republic
has failed to fulfil its obligations under the EC Treaty and those
directives — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: A. La

In Case C-444/98: reference to the Court under Article 177 of
the EC Treaty (now Article 234 EC) from the Arrondissements-
rechtbank te Roermond, Netherlands, for a preliminary ruling
in the proceedings pending before that court between R. J. de
Laat and Bestuur van het Landelijk Instituut Sociale Verzeker-
ingen — on the interpretation of Article 71(1)(a) of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the
application of social security schemes to employed persons, to
self-employed persons and to members of
their families
moving within the Community, as amended and updated by
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2001/83 of 2 June 1983 (OJ
1983 L 230, p. 6), — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of:
the Chamber, M. Wathelet,
A. La Pergola, President of