CELEX: 62009CA0185
Language: en
Date: 2010-02-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-185/09: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 4 February 2010 — European Commission v Kingdom of Sweden (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2006/24/EC — Electronic communications — Retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of electronic communications services — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

27.3.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 80/6
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 4 February 2010 — European Commission v Kingdom of Sweden
   (Case C-185/09) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/24/EC - Electronic communications - Retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of electronic communications services - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   2010/C 80/10
   Language of the case: Swedish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: L. Balta and U. Jonsson, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Sweden (represented by: A. Falk and A. Engman, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary to comply Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC (OJ 2006 L 105, p. 54)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary to comply Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC, the Kingdom of Sweden has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               orders the Kingdom of Sweden to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 180, 01.08.2009.