CELEX: C2004/217/08
Language: en
Date: 2004-08-28 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 1 July 2004 in Case C-65/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Articles 12 EC, 149 EC and 150 EC — Secondary education diploma awarded in another Member State — Access to higher education)

28.8.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/5
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Third Chamber)
   of 1 July 2004
   in Case C-65/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Articles 12 EC, 149 EC and 150 EC - Secondary education diploma awarded in another Member State - Access to higher education)
   (2004/C 217/08)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-65/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agent: D. Martin) v Kingdom of Belgium (Agent: A. Snoecx) — application for a declaration that, by failing to take the measures necessary to ensure that holders of secondary education diplomas awarded in other Member States can gain access to higher education organised by Belgium's French Community under the same conditions as holders of the certificat d'enseignement secondaire supérieur (CESS), the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 12 EC, 149 EC and 150 EC — the Court (Third Chamber), composed of: A. Rosas, President of the Chamber, R. Schintgen and N. Colneric (Rapporteur), Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 1 July 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to take the measures necessary to ensure that holders of secondary education diplomas obtained in other Member States can gain access to higher education organised by Belgium's French Community under the same conditions as holders of the certificat d'enseignement secondaire supérieur (CESS), the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 12 EC, read in conjunction with Articles 149 EC and 150 EC;
            
         
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               Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 83 of 5.4.2003.