CELEX: C2005/019/13
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 18 November 2004 in Case C-85/04: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2001/17/EC — Reorganisation and winding-up of insurance undertakings — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

22.1.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 19/7
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 18 November 2004
   in Case C-85/04: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 2001/17/EC - Reorganisation and winding-up of insurance undertakings - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2005/C 19/13)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-85/04: action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 23 February 2004, Commission of the European Communities (Agents: E. Traversa and P. Léouffre) against French Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues and O. Christmann) – the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, acting as President of the Fourth Chamber, M. Ilešič (Rapporteur) and E. Levits, Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 18 November 2004, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2001/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2001 on the reorganisation and winding-up of insurance undertakings, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 84 of 3.4.2004.