CELEX: C2006/036/32
Language: en
Date: 2006-02-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of  15 December 2005  in Case C-67/05: Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2000/60/EC — Community action in the field of water policy — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

11.2.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 36/17
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Sixth Chamber)
   of 15 December 2005
   in Case C-67/05: Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2000/60/EC - Community action in the field of water policy - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2006/C 36/32)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case C-67/05 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: U. Wölker and S. Pardo Quintillán) v Federal Republic of Germany (Agent: U. Forsthoff) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 11 February 2005 — the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of J. Malenovský, President of the Chamber, J.-P. Puissochet and A Ó Caoimh (Rapporteur), Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 15 December 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by not adopting within the prescribed period, all of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy, the Federal Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 82 of 02.04.2005