CELEX: 62009CJ0169
Language: en
Date: 2010-03-25 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 25 March 2010. # European Commission v Hellenic Republic. # Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations - Ecodesign requirements for energy-using products - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-169/09.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 25 March 2010 – Commission v Greece
      (Case C-169/09)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Ecodesign requirements for energy-using products – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of the merits by the Court – Situation to be taken into consideration – Situation on expiry of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 11)
      Re:
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to take, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2005 establishing a framework
                  for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-using products and amending Council Directive 92/42/EEC and Directives
                  96/57/EC and 2000/55/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ 2005 L 191, p. 29).
               
            Operative part:
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions
                     necessary to comply with Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2005 establishing a
                     framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-using products and amending Council Directive 92/42/EEC and
                     Directives 96/57/EC and 2000/55/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil
                     its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.