CELEX: C2005/106/13
Language: en
Date: 2005-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 27 January 2005 in Case C-416/03: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2001/18/EC — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

30.4.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 106/7
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 27 January 2005
   in Case C-416/03: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2001/18/EC - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2005/C 106/13)
   Language of the case: Greek
   In Case C-416/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agent: M. Konstantinidis) v Hellenic Republic (Agent: N. Dafniou) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 3 October 2003 — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: K. Lenaerts, President of the Chamber, N. Colneric and K. Schiemann (Rapporteur), Judges; J. Kokott, Advocate General, gave a judgment on 27 January 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, 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 Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 275, 15.11.2003.