CELEX: C2005/045/07
Language: en
Date: 2005-02-19 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 9 December 2004 in Case C-460/02: Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic (Air transport — Groundhandling — Directive 96/67/EC)

19.2.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 45/4
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (First Chamber)
   of 9 December 2004
   in Case C-460/02: Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic
       (1)
   
   (Air transport - Groundhandling - Directive 96/67/EC)
   (2005/C 45/07)
   Language of the case: Italian
   In Case C-460/02: action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 19 December 2002, between Commission of the European Communities (Agents: A. Aresu and M. Huttunen) and Italian Republic (Agents: I.M. Braguglia and O. Fiumara) – the Court (First Chamber), composed of P. Jann, President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta (Rapporteur), K. Lenaerts, S. von Bahr and K. Schiemann, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; M. Múgica Arzamendi, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 9 December 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that in so far as Legislative Decree No 18 of 13 January 1999 applying Directive 96/67/EC on access to the groundhandling market at Community airports incorporates, at Article 14, a social measure which is incompatible with Article 18 of Council Directive 96/67/EC of 15 October 1996 and sets out, at Article 20, interim provisions which are not authorised under the directive, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under the directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Italian Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 55 of 8.3.2003.