CELEX: 62009CJ0326
Language: en
Date: 2011-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 17 March 2011. # European Commission v Republic of Poland. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2004/113/EC - Social policy - Equal treatment between men and women - Access to and supply of goods and services - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-326/09.

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 17 March 2011 – Commission v Poland
      (Case C-326/09)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2004/113/EC – Social policy – Equal treatment between men and women – Access to and supply of goods and services – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      1.                     Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Proof of failure – Burden of proof on Commission (Art. 258 TFEU) (see para. 18)
      2.                     Acts of the institutions – Directives – Implementation by Member States – Transposition of a directive without legislative
            action (Art. 288(3) TFEU) (see para. 22)
      3.                     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. 258 TFEU)
      Re:
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt or communicate, within the prescribed period, the provisions
                  necessary to comply with Council Directive 2004/113/EC of 13 December 2004 implementing the principle of equal treatment between
                  men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services (OJ 2004 L 373, p. 37)
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Council Directive 2004/113/EC of 13 December 2004 implementing the principle of equal treatment between men
                     and women in the access to and supply of goods and services, the Republic of Poland failed to fulfil its obligations under
                     that directive;
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders the Republic of Poland to pay the costs.