CELEX: C2004/201/11
Language: en
Date: 2004-08-07 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 10 June 2004 in Case C-302/03: Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 1999/22/EC — Keeping of wild animals in zoos — Failure to implement within the period prescribed)

7.8.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 201/6
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 10 June 2004
   in Case C-302/03: Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 1999/22/EC - Keeping of wild animals in zoos - Failure to implement within the period prescribed)
   (2004/C 201/11)
   Language of the case: Italian
   In Case C-302/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M. van Beek and R. Amorosi) v Italian Republic (Agent: I.M. Braguglia, assisted by G. de Bellis) — application for a declaration that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to implement Council Directive 1999/22/EC of 29 March 1999 relating to the keeping of wild animals in zoos (OJ 1999 L 94, p. 24), or, in any event, by failing to notify those provisions to the Commission, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: J.N. Cunha Rodrigues (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, J.-P. Puissochet and K. Lenaerts, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 10 June 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to implement Council Directive 1999/22/EC of 29 March 1999 relating to the keeping of wild animals in zoos, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Italian Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 213, 6.9.2003.