CELEX: 62007CJ0284
Language: en
Date: 2007-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 18 December 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2005/51/EC - Public procurement - Procedures for the award of contracts - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-284/07.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 18 December 2007 – Commission v Portugal
      (Case C‑284/07)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2005/51/EC – Public procurement – Procedures for the award of contracts – 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. 8)
      Re: 
      
         Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, the measures 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 of the Council on public procurement (OJ 2005 L 257, p. 127).
               
            Operative part
      The Court 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Declares that, by failing to adopt 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 of the Council on public procurement, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations
                     under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.