CELEX: 62013CA0139
Language: en
Date: 2014-02-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-139/13: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 13 February 2014 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Area of freedom, security and justice — Standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States — Regulation (EC) No 2252/2004 — Biometric passport — Inclusion of digital fingerprints — Failure to implement — Failure to issue within the prescribed periods)

29.3.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 93/18
            
         Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 13 February 2014 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-139/13) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Area of freedom, security and justice - Standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States - Regulation (EC) No 2252/2004 - Biometric passport - Inclusion of digital fingerprints - Failure to implement - Failure to issue within the prescribed periods)
   2014/C 93/29
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: D. Maidani and G. Wils, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: J.-C. Halleux and L. Van den Broeck, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Article 6 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2252/2004 of 13 December 2004 on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States (OJ 2004 L 385, p. 1) — Biometric passports containing digital fingerprints — Failure to issue such passports within the prescribed periods laid down by that regulation.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by having failed to implement, in the prescribed period, the technical specifications relating to issuing biometric passports containing digital fingerprints, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 6 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2252/2004 of 13 December 2004 on standards for security features and biometrics in passports and travel documents issued by Member States;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 156, 01.6.2013.