CELEX: C2007/283/05
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-5/07: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 27 September 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2003/109/EC — Third-country nationals who are long-term residents — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

24.11.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 283/4
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 27 September 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-5/07) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/109/EC - Third-country nationals who are long-term residents - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2007/C 283/05)
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: M. Condou-Durande and P. Guerra e Andrade, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Portuguese Republic (represented by: L. Fernandes and F. Fraústo de Azevedo, Agents)
   Re:
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents (OJ 2004 L 16, p. 44)
   Operative part of the judgment
   
               1.
            
            
               By not having adopted, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The Portuguese Republic is ordered to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 42, 24.2.2007.