CELEX: 62007CJ0050
Language: en
Date: 2007-07-18 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 18 July 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2004/24/EC - Pharmaceutical specialities - Traditional herbal medicinal products - Community code - Medicinal products for human use - Failure to transpose within the period prescribed. # Case C-50/07.

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 18 July 2007 – Commission v Spain
      (Case C‑50/07)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2004/24/EC – Pharmaceutical specialities – Traditional herbal medicinal products – Community code – Medicinal products for human use – Failure to transpose within the period prescribed
      Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of merits by the Court – Situation to be taken into consideration – Situation on expiry of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 9)
      Re: 
      
         Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Failure to adopt within the period prescribed the provisions necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2004/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending, as regards traditional
                  herbal medicinal products, Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use (OJ 2004
                  L 136, p. 85).
               
            Operative part
      The Court
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the period prescribed, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Directive 2004/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending, as regards traditional
                     herbal medicinal products, Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use, the Kingdom
                     of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.