CELEX: C2004/228/22
Language: en
Date: 2004-09-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 15 July 2004 in Case C-119/03: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to transpose Directive 2000/52/EC — Transparency of financial relations between Member States and public undertakings)

11.9.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 228/12
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 15 July 2004
   in Case C-119/03: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Failure to transpose Directive 2000/52/EC - Transparency of financial relations between Member States and public undertakings)
   (2004/C 228/22)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-119/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agent: G. Rozet) v French Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues and C. Lemaire) — application for a declaration that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2000/52/EC of 26 July 2000 amending Directive 80/723/EEC on the transparency of financial relations between Member States and public undertakings or, in any event by failing to notify them to the Commission, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of: C. Gulmann, President of the Chamber, S. von Bahr (Rapporteur) and R. Silva de Lapuerta, Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 15 July 2004 in which it:
   
               1)
            
            
               declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2000/52/EC of 26 July 2000 amending Directive 80/723/EEC on the transparency of financial relations between Member States and public undertakings, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 112 of 10.5.2003.