CELEX: C2005/019/08
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 17 June 2004 in Case C-255/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Free movement of goods — Measures having equivalent effect — Label of quality and origin — ‘Walloon label of quality’)

22.1.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 19/5
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 17 June 2004
   in Case C-255/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Free movement of goods - Measures having equivalent effect - Label of quality and origin - ‘Walloon label of quality’)
   (2005/C 19/08)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-255/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: C.-F. Durand and F. Simonetti) v Kingdom of Belgium (Agent: E. Dominkovits) – application for a declaration that, by adopting and maintaining in force rules under which the ‘Walloon label of quality’ is granted to finished products of a certain quality manufactured or processed in Wallonie, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 28 EC – the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of C. Gulmann (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, S. von Bahr and R. Silva de Lapuerta, Judges; F.G. Jacobs, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 17 June 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by adopting and maintaining in force rules under which ‘the Walloon label of quality’ is granted to finished products of a certain quality manufactured or processed in Wallonie, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 28 EC;
            
         
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               Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 200 of 23.8.2003.