CELEX: C2005/217/21
Language: en
Date: 2005-09-03 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 14 July 2005 in Case C-386/03: Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Airports — Groundhandling — Directive 96/67/EC)

3.9.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/11
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   of 14 July 2005
   in Case C-386/03: Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Airports - Groundhandling - Directive 96/67/EC)
   (2005/C 217/21)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case C-386/03, Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M. Huttunen and M. Niejahr) v Federal Republic of Germany (Agents: W.-D. Plessing and A. Tiemann) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 12 September 2003 — the Court (Second Chamber), composed of C.W.A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta (Rapporteur), C. Gulmann, R. Schintgen and J. Klučka, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; M.-F. Contet, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 14 July 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by adopting measures contrary to Articles 16 and 18 of Council Directive 96/67/EC of 15 October 1996 on access to the groundhandling market at Community airports, in Paragraphs 8(2) and 9(3) of the Regulation on airport groundhandling services (Verordnung über Bodenabfertigungsdienste auf Flugplätzen) of 10 December 1997, the Federal Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 264 of 01.11.2003.