CELEX: C2004/284/12
Language: en
Date: 2004-11-20 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 30 September 2004 in Case C-496/03: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2001/59/EC — Failure to transpose)

20.11.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 284/6
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 30 September 2004
   in Case C-496/03: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2001/59/EC - Failure to transpose)
   (2004/C 284/12)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-496/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: C.-F. Durand and F. Simonetti) v French Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues and C. Mercier) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 24 November 2003 — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, President of the Chamber, N. Colneric and E. Juhász (Rapporteur), Judges; F.G. Jacobs, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 30 September 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2001/59/EC of 6 August 2001 adapting to technical progress for the 28th time Council Directive 67/548/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
            
         
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               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 21, 24.1.2004.