CELEX: 62008CA0266
Language: en
Date: 2009-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-266/08: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 14 May 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2004/81/EC — Residence permit issued to third-country nationals who are victims of trafficking in human beings or who have been the subject of an action to facilitate illegal immigration, who cooperate with the competent authorities — Failure to transpose completely — Failure to communicate the measures to transpose the directive)

4.7.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 153/15
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 14 May 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-266/08) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2004/81/EC - Residence permit issued to third-country nationals who are victims of trafficking in human beings or who have been the subject of an action to facilitate illegal immigration, who cooperate with the competent authorities - Failure to transpose completely - Failure to communicate the measures to transpose the directive)
   2009/C 153/28
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: M. Condou-Durande and E. Adsera Ribera, acting as Agents, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: B. Plaza Cruz, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2004/81/EC of 29 April 2004 on the residence permit issued to third-country nationals who are victims of trafficking in human beings or who have been the subject of an action to facilitate illegal immigration, who cooperate with the competent authorities (OJ 2004 L 261, p. 19)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2004/81/EC of 29 April 2004 on the residence permit issued to third-country nationals who are victims of trafficking in human beings or who have been the subject of an action to facilitate illegal immigration, who cooperate with the competent authorities, and by failing to communicate to the Commission of the European Communities, the provisions of national law intended to contribute to ensuring such compliance, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 209, of 15.8.2008.