CELEX: C2004/314/02
Language: en
Date: 2004-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 26 October 2004 in Case C-406/03: Commission of the European Communities v Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 — Substances that deplete the ozone layer — Incomplete implementation)

18.12.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 314/1
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 26 October 2004
   in Case C-406/03: Commission of the European Communities v Ireland (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 - Substances that deplete the ozone layer - Incomplete implementation)
   (2004/C 314/02)
   Language of the case: English
   In Case C-406/03: action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 29 September 2003, between Commission of the European Communities (Agents: U. Wölker and M. Shotter) and Ireland (Agents: F. O'Dubhghaill and D. O'Hagan, assisted by D. McGrath) — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of: R. Silva de Lapuerta, President of the Chamber (Rapporteur), C. Gulmann and J. Makarczyk, Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 26 October 2004, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to provide the reports referred to in Article 16(5) and (6) and Article 17(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 June 2000 on substances that deplete the ozone layer, and by failing to take all precautionary measures practicable to prevent and minimise leakages of methyl bromide and to define the minimum qualification requirements for the personnel involved in accordance with Artic1e 17(2) of the Regulation, Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 16(5) and (6) and Article 17(1) and (2) of the Regulation;
            
         
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               Orders Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 289 of 29.11.2003.