CELEX: 62009CJ0008
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-24 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 24 September 2009. # Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/17/EC - Technical requirements for the donation, procurement and testing of human tissues and cells - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-8/09.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 24 September 2009 – Commission v Belgium
      (Case C-8/09)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2006/17/EC – Technical requirements for the donation, procurement and testing of human tissues and cells – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of the merits by the Court – Situation to be taken into consideration – Situation on expiry of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 11)
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt or notify, within the prescribed period, the measures necessary
                  to comply with Commission Directive 2006/17/EC of 8 February 2006 implementing Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament
                  and of the Council as regards certain technical requirements for the donation, procurement and testing of human tissues and
                  cells (OJ 2006 L 38, p. 40).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Declares that, by not adopting, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Commission Directive 2006/17/EC of 8 February 2006 implementing Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament
                     and of the Council as regards certain technical requirements for the donation, procurement and testing of human tissues and
                     cells, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.