CELEX: C2005/171/05
Language: en
Date: 2005-07-09 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 28 April 2005 in Case C-31/04: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2001/29/EC — Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society — Failure to transpose within the period prescribed)

9.7.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 171/3
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Third Chamber)
   of 28 April 2005
   in Case C-31/04: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (1)
   
   (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 2001/29/EC - Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society - Failure to transpose within the period prescribed)
   (2005/C 171/05)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   In Case C-31/04: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: K. Banks and F. Castillo de la Torre) v Kingdom of Spain (Agent: M. Muñoz Pérez) — Action for failure to fulfil obligations under Article 226 EC, brought on 29 March 2004 — the Court (Third Chamber), composed of A. Rosas, President of the Chamber, A. Borg Barthet, A. La Pergola, J. Malenovský (Rapporteur) and A. Ó. Caoimh, Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 28 April 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 71 of 20.03.2004.