CELEX: 62007CJ0075
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-08
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 8 November 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v French Republic. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2004/28/EC - Veterinary medicinal products - Failure to transpose within the period prescribed. # Case C-75/07.

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 8 November 2007 – Commission v France
      (Case C‑75/07)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2004/28/EC – Veterinary medicinal products – Failure to transpose within the period prescribed
      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 Directive 2004/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending Directive 2001/82/EC
                  on the Community code relating to veterinary medicinal products (OJ 2004 L 136, p. 58).
               
            Operative part 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  By failing to adopt, within the period prescribed, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply
                     with Directive 2004/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending Directive 2001/82/EC on
                     the Community code relating to veterinary medicinal products, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under
                     Article 3 of that directive.
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  The French Republic is ordered to pay the costs.