CELEX: 62007CJ0268
Language: en
Date: 2008-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 31 January 2008. # Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2004/17/EC - Public procurement procedures in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-268/07.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 31 January 2008 – Commission v Luxembourg
      (Case C‑268/07)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2004/17/EC – Public procurement procedures in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      1.                     Acts of the institutions – Directives – Implementation by Member States (Art. 249 EC) (see paras 9-10)
      2.                     Member States – Obligations – Implementation of directives – Failure to fulfil obligations – National system pleaded as justification –
            Not permissible (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 13)
      3.                     Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of merits by the Court – Situation on expiry of the period laid down
            in the reasoned opinion (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 14)
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2004/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 coordinating the procurement
                  procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors (OJ 2004 L 134, 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 2004/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 coordinating the procurement
                     procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
                     has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.