CELEX: 62007CJ0259
Language: en
Date: 2008-01-31
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 31 January 2008. # Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2005/51/EC - Public procurement - Procedure for the award of public contracts - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-259/07.

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 31 January 2008 – Commission v Sweden
      (Case C‑259/07)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2005/51/EC – Public procurement – Procedure for the award of public contracts – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      Member States – Obligations – Implementation of directives – Failure to fulfil obligations not contested (Art. 226 EC) (see paras 8-10, operative part)
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary
                  to comply with Commission Directive 2005/51/EC of 7 September 2005 amending Annex XX to Directive 2004/17/EC and Annex VIII
                  to Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on public procurement (OJ 2005 L 257, p. 127).
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Commission Directive 2005/51/EC of 7 September 2005 amending Annex XX to Directive 2004/17/EC and Annex VIII
                     to Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on public procurement, the Kingdom of Sweden has failed
                     to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Kingdom of Sweden to pay the costs.