CELEX: C2007/095/11
Language: en
Date: 2007-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-54/05: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 15 March 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Finland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Articles 28 EC and 30 EC — Importation of a vehicle registered in another Member State — Obligation to obtain a transfer licence)

28.4.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 95/7
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 15 March 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Finland
   (Case C-54/05) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Articles 28 EC and 30 EC - Importation of a vehicle registered in another Member State - Obligation to obtain a transfer licence)
   (2007/C 95/11)
   Language of the case: Finnish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: M. van Beek and M. Huttunen, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Finland (represented by: T. Pynnä and A. Guimaraes-Purokoski, acting as Agents)
   Re:
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Infringement of Articles 28 and 30 EC — Import by a person resident in Finland of a vehicle already registered in another Member State — Obligation to obtain, at the frontier point, a transfer licence usually valid for seven days and to take out an insurance policy for the vehicle
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by requiring a transfer licence for the putting into circulation of vehicles lawfully registered and used in another Member State, as provided for by Decree No 1598/1995 on vehicle registration (asetus ajoneuvojen rekisteröinnistä (1598/1995)) of 18 December 1995, the Republic of Finland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 28 EC and 30 EC;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Finland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 93, 16.4.2005.