CELEX: C2005/006/28
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-08 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 18 November 2004 in Case C-422/03 Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of the Netherlands (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2001/18/EC — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

8.1.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/16
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 18 November 2004
   in Case C-422/03 Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of the Netherlands (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 2001/18/EC - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2005/C 6/28)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   In Case C-422/03 Commission of the European Communities (Agent: M. van Beek) v Kingdom of the Netherlands (Agents: H.G. Sevenster and J. van Bakel) – action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 3 October 2003 – the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, acting for the President of the Fourth Chamber, K, Schiemann (Rapporteur) and E. Juhász, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 18 November 2004, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the Kingdom of the Netherlands to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 275 of 15.11.2003.