CELEX: 62014CA0601
Language: en
Date: 2016-10-11 00:00:00
Title: Case C-601/14: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 11 October 2016 — European Commission v Italian Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2004/80/EC — Article 12(2) — National compensation schemes for victims of violent intentional crime guaranteeing fair and appropriate compensation — National scheme not covering all violent intentional crimes committed on the national territory)

12.12.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 462/2
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 11 October 2016 — European Commission v Italian Republic
   (Case C-601/14) (1)
   
   ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2004/80/EC - Article 12(2) - National compensation schemes for victims of violent intentional crime guaranteeing fair and appropriate compensation - National scheme not covering all violent intentional crimes committed on the national territory))
   (2016/C 462/02)
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: E. Traversa and F. Moro, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Italian Republic (represented by: G. Palmieri, acting as Agent, and by G. Palatiello and E. De Bonis, avvocati dello Stato)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Council of the European Union (represented by: E. Moro, M. Chavrier and K. Pleśniak, acting as Agents)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to adopt all the measures necessary to guarantee the existence, in cross-border situations, of a compensation scheme for victims of all violent intentional crimes committed on its territory, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 12(2) of Council Directive 2004/80/EC of 29 April 2004 relating to compensation to crime victims;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Italian Republic to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 89, 16.3.2015.