CELEX: C2006/036/33
Language: en
Date: 2006-02-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of  15 December 2005  in Case C-88/05: Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Finland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2002/59/EC — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

11.2.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 36/17
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 15 December 2005
   in Case C-88/05: Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Finland (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2002/59/EC - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2006/C 36/33)
   Language of the case: Finnish
   In Case C-88/05 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M. Huttunen and K. Simonsson) v Republic of Finland (Agent: A. Guimaraes-Purokoski) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to comply with obligations, brought on 18 February 2005 — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of J. Makarczyk, President of the Chamber, R. Schintgen and J. Klučka (Rapporteur), Judges; M. Poiares Maduro, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 15 December 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt within the prescribed period all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system and repealing Council Directive 93/75/EEC, the Republic of Finland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Finland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 93 of 16.04.2005