CELEX: C2004/300/04
Language: en
Date: 2004-12-04 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (sitting as a full Court) of 5 October 2004 in Case C-475/01: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of the first paragraph of Article 90 EC — Excise duty on alcohol and alcoholic beverages — Application to ouzo of a rate lower than that applied to other alcoholic beverages — Compliance of that rate with a directive which was not challenged within the time-limit laid down in Article 230 EC)

4.12.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 300/3
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (sitting as a full Court)
   of 5 October 2004
   in Case C-475/01: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Infringement of the first paragraph of Article 90 EC - Excise duty on alcohol and alcoholic beverages - Application to ouzo of a rate lower than that applied to other alcoholic beverages - Compliance of that rate with a directive which was not challenged within the time-limit laid down in Article 230 EC)
   (2004/C 300/04)
   Language of the case: Greek
   In Case C-475/01: Action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 6 December 2001, Commission of the European Communities (Agents: E. Traversa and M. Kondou Durande), supported by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Agent: K. Manji) v Hellenic Republic (Agents: A. Samoni-Rantou and P. Milonopoulos) — the Court (sitting as a full Court), composed of: V. Skouris, President, P. Jann, C.W.A. Timmermans, A. Rosas, C. Gulmann, J.-P. Puissochet and J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, Presidents of Chambers, R. Schintgen, F. Macken, N. Colneric and S. von Bahr (Rapporteur), Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate General; L. Hewlett, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 5 October 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Commission of the European Communities to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 68 of 16.3.2002.