CELEX: 62006CJ0340
Language: en
Date: 2007-07-05 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 5 July 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Austria. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/4/EC - Public access to environmental information - Failure to transpose within the period prescribed. # Case C-340/06.

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 5 July 2007 – Commission v Austria
      (Case C‑340/06)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2003/4/EC – Public access to environmental information – Failure to transpose within the period prescribed
      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. 6)
      Re:
      
         Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the measures 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:
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  By not adopting within the period prescribed all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to transpose
                     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, the Republic of Austria has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  The Republic of Austria is ordered to pay the costs.