CELEX: 62008CA0523
Language: en
Date: 2010-02-11 00:00:00
Title: Case C-523/08: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 11 February 2010 — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2005/71/EC — Specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for the purposes of scientific research — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

27.3.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 80/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 11 February 2010 — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-523/08) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2005/71/EC - Specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for the purposes of scientific research - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   2010/C 80/05
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: M. Condou-Durande and M.-A. Rabanal Suárez, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: B. Plaza Cruz, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt within the prescribed period the provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2005/71/EC of 12 October 2005 on a specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for the purposes of scientific research (OJ 2005 L 289, p. 15)
   
      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 Council Directive 2005/71/EC of 12 October 2005 on a specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for the purposes of scientific research, 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 19, 24.01.2009.