CELEX: C2006/022/03
Language: en
Date: 2006-01-28 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of  17 November 2005  in Case C-476/04: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive No 2001/55/EC — Mass influx of displaced persons — Temporary protection — Minimum standards)

28.1.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 22/2
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Sixth Chamber)
   of 17 November 2005
   in Case C-476/04: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive No 2001/55/EC - Mass influx of displaced persons - Temporary protection - Minimum standards)
   (2006/C 22/03)
   Language of the case: Greek
   In Case C-476/04 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M. Kontoy and C. O'Reilly) v Hellenic Republic (Agent: N. Dafniou) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 12 November 2004 — the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of A. Borg Barthet (Rapporteur), acting as President of the Sixth Chamber, U. Lõhmus and A. Ó Caoimh, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 17 November 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 6 of 8.1.2005.