CELEX: 62009CJ0513
Language: en
Date: 2010-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 July 2010. # European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/66/EC - Batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-513/09.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 July 2010 – Commission v Belgium
      (Case C‑513/09)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2006/66/EC – Batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators – 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. 258 TFEU; European Parliament and Council Directive
         2006/66) (see paras 9-12)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt or communicate, within the prescribed period, all the provisions
                  necessary to comply with Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on batteries
                  and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC (OJ 2006 L 266, p. 1).
               
            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 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on batteries
                     and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed
                     to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to bear the costs.