CELEX: C2006/060/22
Language: en
Date: 2006-03-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of  12 January 2006  in Case C-118/05: Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2000/60/EC — Community policy in the field of water — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

11.3.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 60/11
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Sixth Chamber)
   of 12 January 2006
   in Case C-118/05: Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2000/60/EC - Community policy in the field of water - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2006/C 60/22)
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   In Case C-118/05, Action for failure to fulfil obligations under Article 226 EC, brought on 10 March 2005, Commission of the European Communities (Agents: A. Caeiros and S. Pardo Quintillán) v Portuguese Republic (Agent: L. Fernandes), the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of J. Malenovský, President of the Chamber, J.-P. Puissochet and A. Ó Caoimh, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 12 January 2006, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that Directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Portuguese Government to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 106 of 30.04.2005.