CELEX: 62008CJ0468
Language: en
Date: 2009-10-01
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 1 October 2009. # Commission of the European Communities v French Republic. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Recognition of professional qualifications - Directive 2005/36/EC - Failure to transpose. # Case C-468/08.

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 1 October 2009 – Commission v France
      (Case C‑468/08)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Recognition of professional qualifications – Directive 2005/36/EC – Failure to transpose
      Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of the 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. 5)
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt or communicate, within the prescribed period, all the provisions
                  necessary to comply with Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition
                  of professional qualifications (OJ 2005 L 255, p. 22).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
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                  	Declares that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive
                     2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications,
                     the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 63 of that directive;
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.