CELEX: C2005/193/09
Language: en
Date: 2005-08-06 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 16 June 2005 in Case C-104/04: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 97/13/EC — Telecommunication services — Contribution to research and development)

6.8.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 193/6
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 16 June 2005
   in Case C-104/04: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 97/13/EC - Telecommunication services - Contribution to research and development)
   (2005/C 193/09)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-104/04 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: J.-F. Pasquier and M. Shotter) v French Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues and S. Ramet) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 27 February 2004 — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of K. Lenaerts, President of the Chamber, K. Schiemann and E. Levits (Rapporteur), Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 16 June 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Articles 3(2) and 8(1) of Directive 97/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 April 1997 on a common framework for general authorisations and individual licences in the field of telecommunications services, read in conjunction with the annex to that directive, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 94, 17.04.2004.