CELEX: 62011CA0520
Language: en
Date: 2013-07-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-520/11: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 18 July 2013 — European Commission v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Decision 2009/726/EC — Non-compliance — Imports of milk and milk products — Origin — At-risk holdings in terms of cases of spongiform encephalopathies — National prohibitions)

7.9.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 260/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 18 July 2013 — European Commission v French Republic
   (Case C-520/11) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Decision 2009/726/EC - Non-compliance - Imports of milk and milk products - Origin - At-risk holdings in terms of cases of spongiform encephalopathies - National prohibitions)
   2013/C 260/14
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: F. Jimeno Fernández and D. Bianchi, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues and S. Menez, and by C. Candat and R. Loosli-Surrans, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Arts 4(3) TEU and 288 TFEU — Failure to comply with Commission Decision 2009/726/EC of 24 September 2009 concerning interim protection measures taken by France as regards the introduction onto its territory of milk and milk products coming from a holding where a classical scrapie case is confirmed (OJ 2009 L 258, p. 27)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to comply with Commission Decision 2009/726/EC of 24 September 2009 concerning interim protection measures taken by France as regards the introduction onto its territory of milk and milk products coming from a holding where a classical scrapie case is confirmed, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 4(3) TEU and 288 TFEU.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The French Republic is ordered to pay costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 362, 10.12.2011.