CELEX: 62006CJ0152
Language: en
Date: 2006-10-26 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 26 October 2006. # Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Finland. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2002/95/EC - Hazardous substances - Electrical and electronic equipment - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-152/06.

Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 26 October 2006 – Commission v Finland
      (Case C-152/06)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2002/95/EC – Hazardous substances – Electrical and electronic equipment – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      Member States – Obligations – Implementation of directives – Failure to fulfil obligations not contested (Art. 226 EC) (see paras 6-9 and operative part)
      Re:
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to ensure the transposition within the prescribed period, with regard
                  to the autonomous province of Åland, of Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 2003
                  on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (OJ 2003 L 37, p. 19).
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  Declares that by failing to adopt, with regard to the Åland Islands, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 2003 on the restriction of
                     the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, the Republic of Finland has failed to fulfil
                     its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
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                  Orders the Republic of Finland to pay the costs.