CELEX: C2000/259/01
Language: en
Date: 2000-09-09 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 8 June 2000 in Case C-190/99: Commission of the European Communities v Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 96/43/EC — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

9.9.2000                EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                               C 259/1
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                                                      COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                               COURT OF JUSTICE
                  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                             of Article 4(1) of Council Directive 96/43/EC of 26 June
                                                                                    1996 amending and consolidating Directive 85/73/EEC in
                                                                                    order to ensure financing of veterinary inspections and controls
                          (First Chamber)                                           on live animals and certain animal products and amending
                                                                                    Directives 90/675/EEC and 91/496/EEC, Ireland has failed
                                                                                    to fulfil its obligations under that subparagraph;
                           of 8 June 2000
                                                                              2.    Orders Ireland to pay the costs.
in Case C-190/99: Commission of the European Communi-
                          ties v Ireland (1)                                  (1) OJ C 226 of 7.8.1999.
(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive
96/43/EC — Failure to transpose within the prescribed
                               period)
                          (2000/C 259/01)                                                         JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                                                                                                           (Fifth Chamber)
                    (Language of the case: English)
                                                                                                           of 15 June 2000
                                                                              in Case C-348/97: Commission of the European Communi-
                                                                                           ties v Federal Republic of Germany(1)
In Case C-190/99: Commission of the European Communities                      (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Trade
(Agent: P. Oliver) v Ireland (Agent: M.A. Buckley) — appli-                   with the German Democratic Republic prior to German
cation for a declaration that, by failing to adopt the laws,                  reunification — Regulation (EEC) No 2252/90 — Abolition
regulations or administrative provisions necessary to comply                  of customs formalities — Failure to charge import levies in
with Council Directive 96/43/EC of 26 June 1996 amending                      inter-German trade — Failure to make own resources
and consolidating Directive 85/73/EEC in order to ensure                                           available to the Commission)
financing of veterinary inspections and controls on live
animals and certain animal products and amending Directives
90/675/EEC and 91/496/EEC (OJ 1996 L 162, p. 1) and/or by                                                  (2000/C 259/02)
failing to inform the Commission thereof, Ireland has failed to
fulfil its obligations under that directive — the Court (First
Chamber), composed of: L. Sevón, President of the Chamber,                                         (Language of the case: German)
P. Jann (Rapporteur) and M. Wathelet, Judges; J. Mischo, Advo-
cate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on
8 June 2000, in which it:                                                     (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
                                                                                                    in the European Court Reports)
1.    Declares that, by failing to adopt within the prescribed periods
      the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to        In Case C-348/97: Commission of the European Communities
      comply with the provisions referred to in the first subparagraph        (Agents: K.-D. Borchardt) v Federal Republic of Germany