CELEX: C2005/205/03
Language: en
Date: 2005-08-20 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 12 May 2005 in Case C-287/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations — Freedom to provide services — Customer loyalty programmes — Burden of proof)

20.8.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 205/2
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   of 12 May 2005
   in Case C-287/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (1)
   
   (Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations - Freedom to provide services - Customer loyalty programmes - Burden of proof)
   (2005/C 205/03)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-287/03, Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M. Patakia and N.B. Rasmussen) v Kingdom of Belgium (Agents: E. Dominkovits, assisted by E. Balate, avocat) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 3 July 2003 — the Court (Second Chamber), composed of C.W.A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta (Rapporteur), R. Schintgen, P. Kūris and G. Arestis, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; L. Hewlett, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 12 May 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Commission of the European Communities to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 200 of 23.08.2003.