CELEX: C2006/331/25
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-357/05: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 November 2006 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2003/55/EC — Internal market in natural gas — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

30.12.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 331/15
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 November 2006 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-357/05) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/55/EC - Internal market in natural gas - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2006/C 331/25)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: B. Schima and S. Pardo Quintillán, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: F. Díez Moreno, Agent)
   Re:
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the measures necessary to comply with Directive 2003/55/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2003 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas and repealing Directive 98/30/EC (OJ 2003 L 176, p. 57)
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2003/55/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2003 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas and repealing Directive 98/30/EC, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 281, 12.11.2005.