CELEX: 62006CJ0320
Language: en
Date: 2007-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 March 2007.#Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium.#Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2002/14/EC - Establishment of a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community - Failure to implement within the period prescribed.#Case C-320/06.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 March 2007 – Commission v Belgium
      (Case C‑320/06)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2002/14/EC – Establishment of a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community – Failure to implement within the period prescribed
      Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of merits by the Court – Situation to be taken into consideration – Situation on expiry of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 7)
      Re: 
      
         Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, all the measures necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general
                  framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community – Joint declaration of the European Parliament,
                  the Council and the Commission on employee representation (OJ 2002 L 80, p. 29).
               
            Operative part 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  By failing, within the period prescribed, to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply
                     with Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework
                     for informing and consulting employees in the European Community, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations
                     under that directive. 
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  The Kingdom of Belgium is ordered to pay the costs.