CELEX: 62010CA0006
Language: en
Date: 2010-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-6/10: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 29 July 2010 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2006/46/EC — Company law Annual and consolidated accounts of companies — Failure to transpose or to communicate national transposition measures)

11.9.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 246/14
            
         Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 29 July 2010 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-6/10) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/46/EC - Company law Annual and consolidated accounts of companies - Failure to transpose or to communicate national transposition measures)
   2010/C 246/24
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: G. Braun and L. de Schietere de Lophem, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: M. Jacobs and J.-C. Halleux, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt or communicate, within the prescribed period, all the measures necessary to comply with Directive 2006/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 amending Council Directives 78/660/EEC on the annual accounts of certain types of companies, 83/349/EEC on consolidated accounts, 86/635/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of banks and other financial institutions and 91/674/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of insurance undertakings (OJ 2006 L 224, p. 1)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   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 2006/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 amending Council Directives 78/660/EEC on the annual accounts of certain types of companies, 83/349/EEC on consolidated accounts, 86/635/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of banks and other financial institutions and 91/674/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of insurance undertakings, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 80, 27.03.2010.