CELEX: C2007/096/32
Language: en
Date: 2007-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-388/06: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 March 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2003/96/EC — Restructuring of the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity — Failure to implement within the period prescribed)

28.4.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 96/19
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 March 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v French Republic
   (Case C-388/06) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/96/EC - Restructuring of the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity - Failure to implement within the period prescribed)
   (2007/C 96/32)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: W. Mölls, acting as Agent)
   
      Defendant: French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues and J.C. Gracia, Agents)
   Re:
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, the measures necessary to comply with Council Directive 2003/96/EC of 27 October 2003 restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity (OJ 2003 L 283, p. 51)
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing, within the period prescribed, to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2003/96/EC of 27 October 2003 restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 261, 28.10.2006.