CELEX: 62007CJ0342
Language: en
Date: 2008-01-17 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 17 January 2008. # Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2002/91/EC - Energy policy - Energy saving - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-342/07.

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 17 January 2008 – Commission v Greece
      (Case C‑342/07)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2002/91/EC – Energy policy – Energy saving – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of 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. 6)
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the measures necessary to
                  comply with Directive 2002/91/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 on the energy performance
                  of buildings (OJ 2003 L 1, p. 65). 
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Declares that by not having adopted, within the prescribed period, the legislative, regulatory and administrative measures
                     necessary to comply with Directive 2002/91/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 on the energy
                     performance of buildings, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.