CELEX: C2004/094/18
Language: en
Date: 2004-04-17 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) 9 March 2004 In Case C-314/03: Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

17.4.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 94/9
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   9 March 2004
   In Case C-314/03: Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Failure to transpose Directive 2000/52/EC - Transparency of financial relations between Member States and public undertakings)
   (2004/C 94/18)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-314/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agent: G. Rozet), with an address for service in Luxembourg, against Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Agent: S. Schreiner): Application for a declaration that, by failing to adopt and, in any event, by failing to communicate to the Commission the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2000/52/EC of 26 July 2000 amending Directive 80/723/EEC on the transparency of financial relations between Member States and public undertakings (OJ 2000 L 193, p. 75), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive, the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of: C. Gulmann, President of the Chamber, S. von Bahr (Rapporteur) and R. Silva de Lapuerta, Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 9 March 2004, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2000/52/EC of 26 July 2000 amending Directive 80/723/EEC on the transparency of financial relations between Member States and public undertakings, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 213 of 6.09.2003.