CELEX: C2005/315/02
Language: en
Date: 2005-12-10 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of  20 October 2005  in Case C-111/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Free movement of agricultural products — Directive 89/662/EEC — Article 5 — Veterinary checks in the Member State of destination of the goods — National system of prior notification imposed on importers of certain products of animal origin from other Member States)

10.12.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 315/1
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   of 20 October 2005
   in Case C-111/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Free movement of agricultural products - Directive 89/662/EEC - Article 5 - Veterinary checks in the Member State of destination of the goods - National system of prior notification imposed on importers of certain products of animal origin from other Member States)
   (2005/C 315/02)
   Language of the case: Swedish
   In Case C-111/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: L. Ström van Lier and A. Bordes) v Kingdom of Sweden (Agent: A. Kruse) supported by Republic of Finland (Agent: A. Guimaraes-Purokoski) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 12 March 2003 — the Court (Second Chamber), composed of C.W.A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, R. Schintgen (Rapporteur), R. Silva de Lapuerta, P. Kūris and G. Arestis, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 20 October 2005, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by maintaining a system of compulsory prior notification for imports of certain food products of animal origin from other Member States, the Kingdom of Sweden has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 5 of Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal market;
            
         
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               Orders the Kingdom of Sweden to pay the costs;
            
         
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               Orders the Republic of Finland to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 112, 10.05.2003.