CELEX: C2007/199/19
Language: en
Date: 2007-08-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-317/06: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 5 July 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2002/14/EC — Informing and consulting employees in the European Community — Failure to transpose within the period prescribed)

25.8.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 199/12
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 5 July 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-317/06) (1)
   
   (Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2002/14/EC - Informing and consulting employees in the European Community - Failure to transpose within the period prescribed)
   (2007/C 199/19)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: J. Enegren and R. Vidal Puig, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: M. A. Sampoll Pucurull, agent)
   Re:
   Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to take, within the period prescribed the measures necessary to comply with Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community — Joint declaration of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on employee representation (OJ 2002 L 80, p. 29)
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by not having adopted, within the period prescribed, the laws, regulations and administrative measures necessary to comply with Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 212, 2.9.2006.