CELEX: C2005/006/39
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-08 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 18 November 2004 in Case C-164/04: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2001/17/EC — Reorganisation and winding-up of insurance undertakings — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

8.1.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/20
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 18 November 2004
   in Case C-164/04: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1)
   
   (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 2001/17/EC - Reorganisation and winding-up of insurance undertakings - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2005/C 6/39)
   Language of the case: English
   In Case C-164/04: action for failure to fulfil obligations under Article 226 EC, brought on 31 March 2004, between Commission of the European Communities (Agents: E. Traversa and M. Shotter) and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Agent: C. Jackson) — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, acting for the President of the Fourth Chamber, M. Ilešič (Rapporteur) and E. Levits, Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 18 November 2004, the operative part of which is as follows:
   
               1.
            
            
               By not adopting the laws, regulations and administrative measures necessary to comply with Directive 2001/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2001 on the reorganisation and winding-up of insurance undertakings, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is ordered to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 106 of 30.4.2004.