CELEX: 62009CJ0512
Language: en
Date: 2010-07-15 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 15 July 2010. # European Commission v Hellenic Republic. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/66/EC - Batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-512/09.

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 15 July 2010 – Commission v Greece
      (Case C-512/09)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2006/66/EC – Batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      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; European Parliament and Council Directive
         2006/66) (see paras 7-10)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on batteries and accumulators
                  and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC (OJ 2006 L 266, p. 1).
               
            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 Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on batteries and accumulators
                     and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations
                     under that directive; 
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs of the proceedings.