CELEX: 62006CJ0391
Language: en
Date: 2007-05-03 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 3 May 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v Ireland. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/4/EC - Freedom of access to information - Environmental information - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-391/06.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 3 May 2007 – Commission v Ireland
      (Case C‑391/06)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Directive 2003/4/EC – Freedom of access to information – Environmental information – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of merits by the Court – Situation to be taken into consideration – Situation on expiry of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 7)
      Re: 
      
         Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the provisions necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental
                  information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC (OJ 2003 L 41, p. 26).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Declares that, by failing to adopt within the period prescribed the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental
                     information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC, Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the directive;
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders Ireland to pay the costs.