CELEX: C2001/227/07
Language: en
Date: 2001-08-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 21 June 2001 in Case C-119/00: Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to implement Directive 97/36/EC amending Directive 89/552/EEC — Coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities)

11.8.2001                EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                            C 227/5
2.    The application by the competent institution of a Member State        1.    Declares that by not implementing within the prescribed period
      of Article 95a(4), (5) and (6) of Regulation No 1408/71 to                  the laws, regulations and administrative measures necessary to
      a request for review of a retirement pension, thus limiting the             comply with Directive 97/36/EC of the European Parliament
      retroactivity of the review to the detriment of the person                  and of the Council of 30 June 1997 amending Council
      concerned, constitutes a serious breach of Community law if                 Directive 89/552/EEC on the coordination of certain provisions
      those provisions are not applicable to the application in question          laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in
      and if it follows from a judgment delivered by the Court of                 Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting
      Justice before the decision by the competent institution that the           activities, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil
      institution wrongly applied and anti-overlapping rule of that               its obligations under that directive;
      Member State, and where it cannot be inferred from that
      judgment that the retroactive effect of such a review could be        2.    Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.
      limited.
                                                                            (1) OJ C 163 of 10.6.2000.
( 1) OJ C 163 of 10.6.2000.
                                                                                               JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                                                (Sixth Chamber)
                         (Fourth Chamber)                                                                of 3 July 2001
                           of 21 June 2001                                  in Case C-378/98: Commission of the European Communi-
                                                                                               ties v Kingdom of Belgium (1)
in Case C-119/00: Commission of the European Communi-
             ties v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (1)
                                                                            (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — State
                                                                            aid — Article 93(2), second subparagraph, of the EC Treaty
(Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations —                      (now Article 88(2), second subparagraph, EC) — Obligation
Failure to implement Directive 97/36/EC amending Directive                  to recover aid granted under the Maribel bis and Maribel ter
89/552/EEC — Coordination of certain provisions laid down                               schemes — Impossible to put into effect)
by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States
 concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities)
                                                                                                        (2001/C 227/08)
                           (2001/C 227/07)
                                                                                                  (Language of the case: French)
                     (Language of the case: French)
                                                                            (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published                           in the European Court Reports)
                    in the European Court Reports)
                                                                            In Case C-378/98: Commission of the European Communities
In Case C-119/00: Commission of the European Communities                    (Agent: G. Rozet) v Kingdom of Belgium (Agent: A. Snoecx,
(Agent: K. Banks) v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Agent:                       assisted by G. van Gerven and K. Coppenholle) — application
P. Steinmetz) — application for a declaration that, by failing              for a declaration that, by failing to adopt within the periods
to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions                prescribed for under the Maribel bis/ter scheme which was
necessary to comply with Directive 97/36/EC of the European                 declared unlawful and incompatible with the common market
Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 1997 amending                      by Commission Decision 97/239/EC of 4 December 1996
Council Directive 89/552/EEC on the coordination of certain                 concerning aid granted by Belgium under the Maribel bis/ter
provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative                   scheme (OJ 1997 L 95, p. 25), notified to it on 20 December
action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television                1996, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations
broadcasting activities (OJ 1997 L 202, p. 60), and/or by                   under the fourth paragraph of Article 189 of the EC Treaty
failing to inform the Commission thereof, the Grand Duchy of                (now the fourth paragraph of Article 249 EC) and Articles 2
Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under that                  and 3 of the said decision — the Court (Sixth Chamber),
directive — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: A. La                  composed of: C. Gulmann, President of the Chamber,
Pergola, President of the Chamber, D.A.O. Eward (Rapporteur)                J.-P. Puissochet, R. Schintgen, F. Macken and N. Colneric
and S. von Bahr, Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General;                   (Rapporteur), Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate General; D. Louter-
R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 21 June 2001, in               man-Hubeau, Head of Division, for the Registrar, has given a
which it:                                                                   judgment on 3 July 2001, in which it: