CELEX: C2004/217/15
Language: en
Date: 2004-08-28 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 1 July 2004 in Case C-311/03: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 1999/44/EC — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

28.8.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/8
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Third Chamber)
   of 1 July 2004
   in Case C-311/03: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 1999/44/EC - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2004/C 217/15)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-311/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agent: D. Martin) v French Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues and R. Loosli-Surrans) — application for a declaration that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees (OJ 1999 L 171, p. 12), the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive — the Court (Third Chamber), composed of: A. Rosas (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, R. Schintgen and K. Schiemann, Judges; F. G. Jacobs, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 1 July 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees within the prescribed period, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 213 of 6.9.2003.