CELEX: C2004/300/44
Language: en
Date: 2004-12-04 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 14 October 2004 in Case C-339/03: Commission of the European Communities against the Federal Republic of Germany (Failure to fulfil obligations — Directive 1999/22/EC — Keeping of wild animals in zoos — Failure to transpose within the prescribed time-limit)

4.12.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 300/22
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 14 October 2004
   in Case C-339/03: Commission of the European Communities against the Federal Republic of Germany (1)
   
   (Failure to fulfil obligations - Directive 1999/22/EC - Keeping of wild animals in zoos - Failure to transpose within the prescribed time-limit)
   (2004/C 300/44)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case C-339/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: J. Schieferer and M. van Beek) v the Federal Republic of Germany (Agent: M. Lumma) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of J. N. Cunha Rodrigues (Rapporteur), Acting President of the Fourth Chamber, E. Juhász and M. Ilešič, Judges; Advocate General: P. Léger, Registrar: R. Grass, has given a judgment on 14 October 2004, in which it:
   
               1)
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 1999/22/EC of 29 March 1999 relating to the keeping of wild animals in zoos, in the various länder, with the exception of Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Baden-Württemberg, Niedersachsen, Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringen, the Federal Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 9 of that directive.
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 226 of 20.9.2003.