CELEX: 62007CJ0005
Language: en
Date: 2007-09-27
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 27 September 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/109/EC - Third-country nationals who are long-term residents - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-5/07.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 27 September 2007 – Commission v Portugal
      (Case C‑5/07)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2003/109/EC – Third-country nationals who are long-term residents – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of merits by the Court – Situation to be taken into consideration – Situation on expiry of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 9)
      Re: 
      
         Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary
                  to comply with Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are
                  long-term residents (OJ 2004 L 16, p. 44).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  By not having adopted, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply
                     with Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term
                     residents, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  The Portuguese Republic is ordered to pay the costs.