CELEX: 62008CJ0390
Language: en
Date: 2009-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 14 May 2009. # Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Environment - Decision No 280/2004/EC - Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol - National measures intended to limit and/or reduce greenhouse gas emissions - Failure to communicate the information required. # Case C-390/08.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 14 May 2009 – Commission v Luxembourg
      (Case C‑390/08)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Environment – Decision No 280/2004/EC – Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol – National measures intended to limit and/or reduce greenhouse gas emissions – Failure to communicate the information required
      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 communicate, within the prescribed period, the information required
                  by Article 3(2) of Decision No 280/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 concerning a
                  mechanism for monitoring Community greenhouse gas emissions and for implementing the Kyoto Protocol (OJ 2004 L 49, p. 1),
                  read in conjunction with Articles 8 to 11 of Commission Decision No 2005/166/EC of 10 February 2005 laying down rules implementing
                  Decision No 280/2004/EC (OJ 2005 L 55, p. 57) – Information relating to national projections concerning greenhouse gas emissions
                  and measures adopted to limit and/or reduce such emissions.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Declares that, by failing to communicate, by 15 March 2007, the information required under Article 3(2) of Decision No 280/2004/EC
                     of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 concerning a mechanism for monitoring Community greenhouse
                     gas emissions and for implementing the Kyoto Protocol, read in conjunction with Articles 8 to 11 of Commission Decision No 2005/166/EC
                     of 10 February 2005 laying down rules implementing Decision No 280/2004/EC, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg failed to fulfil
                     its obligations under those provisions;
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.