CELEX: 62009CJ0009
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 September 2009. # Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Public Health - Directive 2004/23/EC - Setting standards of quality and safety for the donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human tissues and cells - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-9/09.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 September 2009 – Commission v Belgium
      (Case C‑9/09)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Public health – Directive 2004/23/EC – Setting standards of quality and safety for the donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution
         of human tissues and cells – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      
      Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of the 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)
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt or to communicate, within the prescribed period, the measures
                  necessary to comply with Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on setting standards
                  of quality and safety for the donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human
                  tissues and cells (OJ 2004 L 102, p. 48).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Declares that, by not adopting, within the prescribed period, all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on setting standards of
                     quality and safety for the donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human tissues
                     and cells, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.