CELEX: C2005/093/05
Language: en
Date: 2005-04-16 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 24 February 2005 in Case C-327/04: Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Finland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2000/43/EC — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

16.4.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 93/3
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 24 February 2005
   in Case C-327/04: Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Finland (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2000/43/EC - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2005/C 93/05)
   Language of the case: Finnish
   In Case C-327/04, action for a declaration under Article 226 EC, brought on 27 July 2004, Commission of the European Communities (Agents: D. Martin and M. Huttunen) v Republic of Finland (Agent: T. Pynnä) – the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of R. Silva de Lapuerta, President of the Chamber, J. Makarczyk and J. Klučka (Rapporteur), Judges; P. Leger, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 24 February 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt, as regards the province of Åland, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin, the Republic of Finland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Finland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 239 of 25.09.2004.