CELEX: 62009CA0187
Language: en
Date: 2009-12-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-187/09: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 10 December 2009 — European Commission v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2006/40/EC — Air conditioning in motor vehicles — Incomplete transposition)

30.1.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 24/15
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 10 December 2009 — European Commission v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
   (Case C-187/09) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/40/EC - Air conditioning in motor vehicles - Incomplete transposition)
   2010/C 24/25
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: O. Beynet and S. Walker, Agents)
   
      Defendants: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: S. Ossowski, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to have taken, within the prescribed period, the necessary provisions to comply with Directive 2006/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 relating to emissions from air-conditioning systems in motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 70/156/EEC (OJ 2006 L 161, p. 12).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2006/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 relating to emissions from air-conditioning systems in motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 70/156/EEC, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 167, 18.7.2009.