CELEX: 62006CA0528
Language: en
Date: 2007-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-528/06: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 December 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2003/98/EC — Re-use of public sector information — Failure to transpose into national law within the prescribed period)

23.2.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 51/25
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 December 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-528/06) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/98/EC - Re-use of public sector information - Failure to transpose into national law within the prescribed period)
   (2008/C 51/40)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: E. Montaguti, acting as Agent)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: D. Haven, acting as Agent)
   Re:
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the measures necessary to comply with Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the re-use of public sector information (OJ 2003 L 345, p. 90)
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the re-use of public sector information, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 42, 24.2.2007.