CELEX: C2004/228/30
Language: en
Date: 2004-09-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 15 July 2004 in Case C-420/03: Commission of the European Communities against Federal Republic of Germany (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to transpose — Directive 2001/18/EC)

11.9.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 228/16
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 15 July 2004
   in Case C-420/03: Commission of the European Communities against Federal Republic of Germany (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Failure to transpose - Directive 2001/18/EC)
   (2004/C 228/30)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case C-420/03 — Commission of the European Communities (Agent: U. Wölker) against Federal Republic of Germany (Agents: W.-D. Plessing and M. Lumma) — application for a declaration that by failing to bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to implement 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 (OJ 2001 L 106, p. 1) or, in any event, by failing to inform the Commission thereof, the Federal Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, President of the Chamber, K. Lenaerts and K. Schiemann (Rapporteur), Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 15 July 2004, the operative part of which is as follows:
   
               1.
            
            
               By failing to adopt within the prescribed period 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 Federal Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The Federal Republic of Germany is ordered to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 275 of 15.11.2003.