CELEX: 62006CJ0141
Language: en
Date: 2007-04-19 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 19 April 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2002/65/EC - Financial services - Distance marketing - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-141/06.

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 19 April 2007 – Commission v Spain
      (Case C‑141/06)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2002/65/EC – Financial services – Distance marketing – 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 obligations – Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, as regards financial services
                  other than private insurance, the provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and
                  of the Council of 23 September 2002 concerning the distance marketing of consumer financial services and amending Council
                  Directive 90/619/EEC and Directives 97/7/EC and 98/27/EC (OJ 2002 L 271, p. 16).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Declares that, by failing to adopt, as regards financial services other than private insurance, the laws, regulations and
                     administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23
                     September 2002 concerning the distance marketing of consumer financial services and amending Council Directive 90/619/EEC
                     and Directives 97/7/EC and 98/27/EC, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.