CELEX: 62007CA0034
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-34/07: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 November 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2003/109/EC — Third-country nationals who are long-term residents — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

26.1.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 22/14
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 November 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
   (Case C-34/07) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/109/EC - Third-country nationals who are long-term residents - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2008/C 22/26)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: M. Condou-Durande, acting as Agent)
   
      Defendant: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (represented by: C. Schiltz, 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 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents (OJ 2004 L 16, p. 44)
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 69 of 24.3.2007.