CELEX: 62006CJ0049
Language: en
Date: 2006-09-28
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 September 2006. # Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. # Failure of member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 1999/37/EC - Registration documents for vehicles - Failure to transpose within the period prescribed. # Case C-49/06.

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 September 2006 – Commission v Luxembourg
      (Case C-49/06)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 1999/37/EC – Registration documents for vehicles – 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. 6)
      Re:
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, the provisions necessary
                  to comply with Council Directive 1999/37/EC of 29 April 1999 on the registration documents for vehicles (OJ 1999 L 138, p.
                  57).
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions
                     necessary to comply with Council Directive 1999/37/EC of 29 April 1999 on the registration documents for vehicles, the Grand
                     Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.