CELEX: 62006CJ0407
Language: en
Date: 2007-05-10 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 10 May 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Protection of workers - Major accident hazards involving dangerous substances - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-407/06.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 10 May 2007 – Commission v Belgium
      (Case C‑407/06)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Directive 2003/105/EC – Protection of workers – Major accident hazards involving dangerous substances – 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. 9)
      Re: 
      
         Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the measures necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2003/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2003 amending Council Directive
                  96/82/EC on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (OJ 2003 L 345, p. 97).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Directive 2003/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2003 amending Council Directive
                     96/82/EC on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil
                     its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.