CELEX: 62006CJ0072
Language: en
Date: 2007-04-19 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 19 April 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/9/EC - Asylum policy - Asylum seekers - Reception - Minimum standards - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-72/06.

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 19 April 2007 – Commission v Greece
      (Case C‑72/06)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2003/9/EC – Asylum policy – Asylum seekers – Reception – Minimum standards – 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, the provisions necessary
                  to comply with Council Directive 2003/9/EC of 27 January 2003 laying down minimum standards for the reception of asylum seekers
                  (OJ 2003 L 31, p. 18).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Council Directive 2003/9/EC of 27 January 2003 laying down minimum standards for the reception of asylum seekers,
                     the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 26 of that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.