CELEX: C2004/300/28
Language: en
Date: 2004-12-04 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 October 2004 in Case C-426/02: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Charges having equivalent effect — Common commercial policy — Imports of goods from Member States and non-member countries — Charges levied for the validation of invoices)

4.12.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 300/14
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 21 October 2004
   in Case C-426/02: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Charges having equivalent effect - Common commercial policy - Imports of goods from Member States and non-member countries - Charges levied for the validation of invoices)
   (2004/C 300/28)
   Language of the case: Greek
   In Case C-426/02: action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, lodged at the Court on 22 November 2002 by Commission of the European Communities (Agents: X. Lewis and M. Konstantinidis) against Hellenic Republic (Agents: A. Samoni-Rantou and N. Dafniou) — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of: R. Silva de Lapuerta, President of the Chamber, C. Gulmann (Rapporteur) and S. von Bahr, Judges; Advocate General: A. Tizzano; Registrar: R. Grass, has given a judgment on 21 October 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by applying, for the benefit of the Ethnikos Organismos Farmakon (National Organisation for Medicines), a charge in respect of the validation of invoices on the import of raw materials for pharmaceutical use, semi-finished products and finished products from other Member States or non-member countries, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 23 EC, 25 EC and 133 EC;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 31 of 8.2.2003.