CELEX: 62009CA0157
Language: en
Date: 2011-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Case C-157/09: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 1 December 2011 — European Commission v Kingdom of the Netherlands (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Article 43 EC — Freedom of establishment — Notaries — Nationality requirement — Article 45 EC — Connection with the exercise of official authority)

4.2.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 32/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 1 December 2011 — European Commission v Kingdom of the Netherlands
   (Case C-157/09) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Article 43 EC - Freedom of establishment - Notaries - Nationality requirement - Article 45 EC - Connection with the exercise of official authority)
   2012/C 32/04
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: H. Støvlbæk and W. Roels, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented by: D.J.M. de Grave and M.A.M de Ree, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Republic of Slovenia (represented by: T. Mihelič, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Articles 43 EC and 45 EC — Access to and practice of the profession of notary — Nationality requirement — Connection with the exercise of official authority
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by imposing a nationality requirement for access to the profession of notary, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 43 EC.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of the Netherlands to pay the costs.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Slovenian Republic to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 180, 1.8.2009.