CELEX: 62006CJ0376
Language: en
Date: 2007-05-24 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 24 May 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic. # Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2001/42/EC - Assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-376/06.

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 24 May 2007 – Commission v Portugal
      (Case C‑376/06)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Directive 2001/42/EC – Assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      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. 10)
      Re: 
      
         Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Failure to take within the prescribed period the measures necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2001 on the assessment of the
                  effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment (OJ 2001 L 197, p. 30).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Declares that, by not adopting, within the prescribed period, the laws regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2001 on the assessment of the
                     effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under
                     that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.