Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 17 June 2004 in Case C-99/03: Commission of the European Communities v Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2000/52/EC — Transparency of financial relations between Member States and public undertakings — Failure to implement within the prescribed period)
Date: 2004-08-07
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European Commission, Ireland, action for failure to fulfil an obligation, administrative transparency, economic relations, national implementing measure, public finance, public sector

C 201/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

7.8.2004

1. Declares that, by failing to carry out inspections of at least 25 %
of the number of
individual vessels which entered its ports in
1999 and 2000, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obli-
gations under Article 5(1) of Council Directive 95/21/EC of 19
June 1995 concerning the enforcement,
in respect of shipping
using Community ports and sailing in the waters under the juris-
diction of the Member States, of international standards for ship
safety, pollution prevention and shipboard living and working
conditions (port State control);

R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 17 June 2004, in
which it:

the laws,

1. Declares that, by failing to adopt

regulations and
administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission
Directive 2000/52/EC of 26 July 2000 amending Directive
80/723/EEC on the transparency of financial relations between
Member States and public undertakings, Ireland has failed to fulfil
its obligations under that directive;

2. Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 19, 25.1.2003.

2. Orders Ireland to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 101, 26.4.2003.

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Fifth Chamber)

of 17 June 2004

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Fourth Chamber)

of 10 June 2004

in Case C-99/03: Commission of the European Commu-
nities v Ireland (1)

in Case C-302/03: Commission of the European Commu-
nities v Italian Republic (1)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Direc-
financial relations
tive 2000/52/EC — Transparency of
between Member States and public undertakings — Failure
to implement within the prescribed period)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Direc-
tive 1999/22/EC — Keeping of wild animals in zoos —
Failure to implement within the period prescribed)

(2004/C 201/10)

(Language of the case: English)

(2004/C 201/11)

(Language of the case: Italian)

(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-99/03: Commission of the European Communities
(Agent: J. Flett) v Ireland (Agent: D. O'Hagan) — application for
a declaration that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and
administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commis-
sion Directive 2000/52/EC of 26 July 2000 amending Directive
80/723/EEC on the transparency of financial relations between
Member States and public undertakings (OJ 2000 L 193, p. 75)
or, in any event, by failing to notify the Commission of those
measures, Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that
directive — the Court
(Fifth Chamber), composed of: C.
Gulmann, President of the Chamber, S. von Bahr (Rapporteur)
and R. Silva de Lapuerta, Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate General;

In Case C-302/03: Commission of the European Communities
(Agents: M. van Beek and R. Amorosi) v Italian Republic
(Agent: I.M. Braguglia, assisted by G. de Bellis) — application
for a declaration that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations
and administrative provisions necessary to implement Council
Directive 1999/22/EC of 29 March 1999 relating to the
keeping of wild animals in zoos (OJ 1999 L 94, p. 24), or, in
any event, by failing to notify those provisions to the Commis-
sion, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil
its obligations
under that directive — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed
the
of:
Chamber,
Judges; P. Léger,
Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on
10 June 2004, in which it:

J.-P. Puissochet and K. Lenaerts,

(Rapporteur), President of

J.N. Cunha Rodrigues