CELEX: 62009CA0513
Language: en
Date: 2010-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-513/09: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 July 2010 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2006/66/EC — Batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

11.9.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 246/14
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 July 2010 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-513/09) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/66/EC - Batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   2010/C 246/22
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: V. Peere and A. Marghelis, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: T. Materne, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt or communicate, within the prescribed period, all the provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC (OJ 2006 L 266, p. 1)
   
      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 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC, 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 37, 13.02.2010.