CELEX: C2006/131/46
Language: en
Date: 2006-06-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-133/05: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of  23 February 2006  — Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Austria (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2000/78/EC — Equal treatment in employment and occupation — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

3.6.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 131/26
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 23 February 2006 — Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Austria
   (Case C-133/05) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 2000/78/EC - Equal treatment in employment and occupation - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2006/C 131/46)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: D. Martin, acting as Agent)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Austria (represented by: C. Pesendorfer, acting as Agent)
   Re:
   Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to have transposed, within the prescribed period, Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (OJ 2000 L 303, p. 16)
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply, at federal level, with the provisions on discrimination based on disability, in Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation and, at Länder level, with the exception of the Länder of Vienna and Lower-Austria, to all the provision of that directive, the Republic of Austria has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Austria to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 143 of 11.06.2005.