CELEX: 62008CA0505
Language: en
Date: 2009-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-505/08: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 17 December 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2005/36/EC — Recognition of professional qualifications — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

27.2.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 51/11
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 17 December 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany
   (Case C-505/08) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2005/36/EC - Recognition of professional qualifications - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   2010/C 51/16
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: H. Støvlbæk and M. Adam, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: M. Lumma and N. Graf Vitzthum, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the specified time-limit, the necessary provisions to comply with Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications (OJ 2005 L 255, p. 22)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
               1.
            
            
               By failing to adopt and communicate to the European Commission all the laws, regulations or administrative provisions necessary to transpose Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications, the Federal Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under that Directive.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The Federal Republic of Germany is ordered to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 19, 24.01.2009.