CELEX: C2007/096/31
Language: en
Date: 2007-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-320/06: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 March 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2002/14/EC — Establishment of a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community — Failure to implement within the period prescribed)

28.4.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 96/18
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 March 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-320/06) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2002/14/EC - Establishment of a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community - Failure to implement within the period prescribed)
   (2007/C 96/31)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: J. Enegren and G. Rozet, acting as Agent)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: D. Haven, Agent)
   Re:
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, all the measures necessary to comply with Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community — Joint declaration of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on employee representation (OJ 2002 L 80, p. 29)
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing, within the period prescribed, to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 212, 2.9.2006.