CELEX: E2009J0008
Language: en
Date: 2010-05-07 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 7 May 2010 in Case E-8/09 — EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Republic of Iceland (Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to lifts — Judgment by default)

25.11.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 320/20
            
         JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   of 7 May 2010
   in Case E-8/09
   EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Republic of Iceland
   
      (Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to lifts — Judgment by default)
   
   2010/C 320/09
   In Case E-8/09, EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Republic of Iceland — Application for a declaration that by failing to adopt, or to notify the EFTA Surveillance Authority of, the measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 5 of Chapter III of Annex II to the EEA Agreement, i.e. Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to lifts, as adapted to the EEA Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, within the time limit prescribed, the Republic of Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that Act and Article 7 of the EEA Agreement, the Court, composed of Carl Baudenbacher, President, Thorgeir Örlygsson (Judge-Rapporteur), and Henrik Bull, Judges, gave judgment on 7 May 2010, the operative part of which is as follows:
   The Court hereby:
   
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               declares that, by failing to adopt, within the time limit prescribed, the measures necessary to implement Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC, as adapted to the EEA Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, the Republic of Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Directive and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               orders the Republic of Iceland to bear the costs of the proceedings.