CELEX: C2004/217/17
Language: en
Date: 2004-08-28 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 8 July 2004 in Case C-389/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to transpose Directive 1999/74/EC)

28.8.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/9
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 8 July 2004
   in Case C-389/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Failure to transpose Directive 1999/74/EC)
   (2004/C 217/17)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-389/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agent: A. Bordes) v Kingdom of Belgium (Agent: E. Dominkovits) — application for a declaration that, by not adopting the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 1999/74/EC of 19 July 1999 laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens (OJ 1999 L 203, p. 53), and, in any event, by failing to inform the Commission thereof, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, President of the Chamber, F. Macken (Rapporteur) and K. Lenaerts, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 8 July 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by not adopting the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 1999/74/EC of 19 July 1999 laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 251 of 18.10.2003.