CELEX: 62006CJ0138
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-14
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 December 2006. # Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2002/49/EC - Assessment and management of environmental noise - Non-transposition within the prescribed period. # Case C-138/06.

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 December 2006 – Commission v United Kingdom
      (Case C‑138/06)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2002/49/EC – Assessment and management of environmental noise – Non-transposition 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. 7)
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to have adopted, within the prescribed period, all the measures
                  necessary to comply with Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 relating to the
                  assessment and management of environmental noise – Declaration by the Commission in the Conciliation Committee on the Directive
                  relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise (OJ 2002 L 189, p. 12).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 relating to the assessment
                     and management of environmental noise, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations
                     under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.