CELEX: 62007CJ0067
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-29 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 29 November 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v French Republic. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2004/24/EC - Traditional herbal medicinal products - Community code - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-67/07.

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 29 November 2007 – Commission v France
      (Case C‑67/07)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2004/24/EC – Traditional herbal medicinal products – Community code – 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. 7)
      Re: 
      
         Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt within the prescribed period of the provision necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2004/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending, as regards traditional
                  herbal medicinal products, Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use (OJ 2004
                  L 136, p. 85).
               
            Operative part 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  By failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply
                     with Directive 2004/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending, as regards traditional
                     herbal medicinal products, Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use, the French
                     Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 2 of that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  The French Republic is ordered to pay the costs.