CELEX: 62006CJ0114
Language: en
Date: 2007-02-08
Title: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 8 February 2007.#Commission of the European Communities v Slovak Republic.#Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 96/48/EC - Trans-European networks - Interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system - Failure to transpose.#Case C-114/06.

Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 8 February 2007 – Commission v Slovakia
      (Case C‑114/06)
      Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Directive 96/48/EC – Trans-European networks – Interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system – Failure to transpose
      Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of the merits by the Court –Situation to be taken into consideration – Situation on expiry of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 8)
      Re: 
      
         Failure to fulfil obligations – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period Council Directive 96/48/EC of 23 July 1996
                  on the interoperability of the trans‑European high-speed rail system (OJ 1996 L 235, p. 6).
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive
                     96/48/EC of 23 July 1996 on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system, the Slovak Republic has failed
                     to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the Slovak Republic to pay the costs.