CELEX: C2005/182/33
Language: en
Date: 2005-07-23 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 2 June 2005 in Case C-454/04: Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2001/55/EC — Temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

23.7.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 182/18
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Sixth Chamber)
   of 2 June 2005
   in Case C-454/04: Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 2001/55/EC - Temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2005/C 182/33)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-454/04 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: C. O'Reilly and A.-M. Rouchaud-Joët) v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Agent: S. Schreiner) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 28 October 2004 — the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of A. Borg Barthet (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, A. La Pergola and A. Ó Caoimh, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 2 June 2005, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 314 of 18. 12. 2004.