CELEX: C2005/271/20
Language: en
Date: 2005-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 July 2005 in Case C-31/05: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directives 2002/19/EC, 2002/20/EC and 2002/21/EC — Networks and services — Electronic communications — Common regulatory framework — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

29.10.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 271/11
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 14 July 2005
   in Case C-31/05: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directives 2002/19/EC, 2002/20/EC and 2002/21/EC - Networks and services - Electronic communications - Common regulatory framework - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2005/C 271/20)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-31/05 Commission of the European Communities (Agent: M. Shotter) v French Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues and S. Ramet) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 28 January 2005 — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of R. Silva de Lapuerta, President of the Chamber, P. Kűris (Rapporteur) and G. Arestis, Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 14 July 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by not adopting the laws, regulations and administrative provisions required by Directive 2002/19/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on access to, and interconnection of, electronic communications networks and associated facilities (Access Directive), Directive 2002/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on the authorisation of electronic communications networks and services (Authorisation Directive) and Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on a common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (Framework Directive), the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under those directives;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 82 of 2.4.2005.