CELEX: 62010CA0024
Language: en
Date: 2010-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Case C-24/10: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 23 September 2010 — European Commission v Hellenic Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2006/46/EC — Company law — Annual accounts and consolidated accounts of companies — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

20.11.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 317/12
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 23 September 2010 — European Commission v Hellenic Republic
   (Case C-24/10) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 2006/46/EC - Company law - Annual accounts and consolidated accounts of companies - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   2010/C 317/22
   Language of the case: Greek
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: M. Karanasou Apostolopoulou and G. Braun, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Hellenic Republic (represented by: N. Dafniou, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2006/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 amending Council Directives 78/660/EEC on the annual accounts of certain types of companies, 83/349/EEC on consolidated accounts, 86/635/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of banks and other financial institutions and 91/674/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of insurance undertakings (OJ 2006 L 224, p. 1)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that by not adopting within the prescribed period the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2006/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 amending Council Directives 78/660/EEC on the annual accounts of certain types of companies, 83/349/EEC on consolidated accounts, 86/635/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of banks and other financial institutions and 91/674/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of insurance undertakings, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 63, 13.03.2010.