CELEX: 62008CA0457
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-457/08: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 3 September 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2005/14/EC — Insurance against civil liability — Motor vehicles — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

24.10.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 256/6
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 3 September 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
   (Case C-457/08) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2005/14/EC - Insurance against civil liability - Motor vehicles - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   2009/C 256/10
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: N. Yerrell, acting as Agent)
   
      Defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: L. Seeboruth, 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 Directive 2005/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 amending Council Directives 72/166/EEC, 84/5/EEC, 88/357/EEC and 90/232/EEC and Directive 2000/26/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles (OJ 2005 L 149, p. 14)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2005/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 amending Council Directives 72/166/EEC, 84/5/EEC, 88/357/EEC and 90/232/EEC and Directive 2000/26/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Directive 2005/14/EC;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 313, 6.12.2008.