CELEX: C2004/217/16
Language: en
Date: 2004-08-28 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 1 July 2004 in Case C-331/03: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2000/53/EC — Failure to transpose within the period prescribed)

28.8.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/9
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 1 July 2004
   in Case C-331/03: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 2000/53/EC - Failure to transpose within the period prescribed)
   (2004/C 217/16)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-331/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M. Konstantinidis and F. Simonetti) v French Republic (Agent: G. de Bergues and E. Puisais) — application for a declaration that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 September 2000 on end-of life vehicles (OJ 2000 L 269, p. 34) and, in any event, by failing to notify them to the Commission, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, President of the Chamber, F. Macken (Rapporteur) and K. Lenaerts, Judges; M. Poiares Maduro, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 1 July 2004, the operative part of which is as follows:
   
               1.
            
            
               By failing, within the period prescribed, to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 September 2000 on end-of life vehicles, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The French Republic is ordered to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 213 of 6.9.2003.