CELEX: E2006J0006
Language: en
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 3 October 2007 in Case E-6/06 — EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Principality of Liechtenstein (Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfill its obligations — Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise)

24.1.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 17/12
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   of 3 October 2007
   in Case E-6/06
   EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Principality of Liechtenstein
   
      (Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfill its obligations — Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise)
   
   (2008/C 17/08)
   In Case E-6/06, EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Principality of Liechtenstein:
   APPLICATION for a declaration that by failing to adopt, within the time-limit prescribed, or to notify the EFTA Surveillance Authority of the adoption of, the measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 32g of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement, i.e. Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002, as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto, the Principality of Liechtenstein has failed to fulfill its obligations under Article 14 of that Act and Article 7 of the EEA Agreement, the Court, composed of: Carl Baudenbacher, President, Thorgeir Örlygsson, Judge, and Henrik Bull Judge-Rapporteur, gave judgment on 3 October 2007, the operative part of which is as follows:
   THE COURT
   hereby:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the time-limit prescribed, the measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 32g of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement, i.e. Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise, as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto and the sectoral adaptation contained in Annex XX to that Agreement, the Principality of Liechtenstein has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 14 of that Act and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Principality of Liechtenstein to bear the costs of the proceedings.