CELEX: 62008CA0052
Language: en
Date: 2011-05-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-52/08: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 24 May 2011 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Notaries — Directive 2005/36/EC)

9.7.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 204/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 24 May 2011 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-52/08) (1)
   
   (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Notaries - Directive 2005/36/EC)
   2011/C 204/05
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: represented by H. Støvlbæk and P. Andrade, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: S. Ossowski, Agent, and by K. Smith, Barrister)
   
      Defendant: Portuguese Republic (represented by: L. Inez Fernandes and F.S. Gaspar Rosa, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Czech Republic (represented by: M. Smolek, Agent), Republic of Lithuania (represented by: D. Kriaučiūnas and E. Matulionytė, Agents), Republic of Slovenia (represented by: V. Klemenc and Ž. Cilenšek Bončina, Agents), Slovak Republic (represented by: J. Čorba, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to adopt within the period prescribed, with regard to the profession of notary, the provisions necessary 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and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications (OJ 2005 L 255, p. 22), which repealed Directive 89/49/EEC (OJ 1989 L 19, p. 16)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Czech Republic, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Slovenia, the Slovak Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 107, 26.4.2008.