CELEX: C2006/010/08
Language: en
Date: 2006-01-14 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of  10 November 2005  in Case C-385/04: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2001/16/EC — Trans-European Networks — Interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system — Failure to transpose within the period prescribed)

14.1.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 10/4
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 10 November 2005
   in Case C-385/04: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2001/16/EC - Trans-European Networks - Interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system - Failure to transpose within the period prescribed)
   (2006/C 10/08)
   Language of the case: English
   In Case C-385/04, Commission of the European Communities (Agent: W. Wils) v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Agent: C. White) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 7 September 2004 — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of K. Schiemann, President of the Chamber, K. Lenaerts and E. Levits (Rapporteur), Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 10 November 2005, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to adopt within the period prescribed all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2001/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2001 on the interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 262, 23.10.2004.