CELEX: 62009CJ0211
Language: en
Date: 2009-11-26 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 26 November 2009. # Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/24/EC- Electronic communications - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-211/09.

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 26 November 2009 – Commission v Greece
      (Case C‑211/09)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2006/24/EC– Electronic communications – 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. 7)
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt within the prescribed period all the measures necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data
                  generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public
                  communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC (OJ 2006 L 105, p. 54).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions
                     necessary to comply with Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention
                     of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or
                     of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations
                     under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.