CELEX: C2005/143/18
Language: en
Date: 2005-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 April 2005 in Case C-329/04: Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2000/43/EC — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

11.6.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 143/13
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 28 April 2005
   in Case C-329/04: Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (1)
   
   (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 2000/43/EC - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2005/C 143/18)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case C-329/04 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: D. Martin and H. Kreppel) v Federal Republic of Germany (Agent: C.-D Quassowski) — action for failure to fulfil obligations under Article 226 EC, brought on 29 July 2004 — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of R. Silva de Lapuerta, President of the Chamber, P. Kūris and J. Klučka, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 28 April 2005, in which it:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin, the Federal Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 239 of 25. 09. 2004.