CELEX: 62007CJ0057
Language: en
Date: 2007-12-06
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 6 December 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/86/EC - Right to family reunification - Non-transposition within the prescribed period. # Case C-57/07.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 6 December 2007 – Commission v Luxembourg
      (Case C‑57/07)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2003/86/EC – Right to family reunification – Non-transposition within the prescribed period
      1.                     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. 9)
      2.                     Acts of the institutions – Directives – Implementation by Member States (see para. 10)
      
         Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the measures necessary to
                  comply with Council Directive 2003/86/EC of 22 September 2003 on the right to family reunification (OJ 2003 L 251, p. 12).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Declares that by not adopting, within the prescribed period, the legislative, regulatory and administrative measures necessary
                     to comply with Council Directive 2003/86/EC of 22 September 2003 on the right to family reunification, the Grand Duchy of
                     Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.