CELEX: 62008CJ0469
Language: en
Date: 2009-07-09 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 9 July 2009. # Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2005/36/EC - Recognition of professional qualifications - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-469/08.

Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 9 July 2009 – Commission v Belgium
      (Case C‑469/08)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2005/36/EC ­ – Recognition of professional qualifications – 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. 9)
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt within the prescribed period all the measures necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of
                  professional qualifications (OJ 2005 L 255, p. 22).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Declares that, by not adopting, within the prescribed period, all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of
                     professional qualifications, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.