CELEX: 62010CA0397
Language: en
Date: 2011-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-397/10: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 30 June 2011 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Article 56 TFEU — Freedom to provide services — National legislation making the activities of temporary work agencies subject to a set of requirements — Unjustified obstacles)

27.8.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 252/6
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 30 June 2011 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-397/10) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Article 56 TFEU - Freedom to provide services - National legislation making the activities of temporary work agencies subject to a set of requirements - Unjustified obstacles)
   2011/C 252/08
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: J.-P. Keppenne and I. Rogalski, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: M. Jacobs, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to comply with its obligations — Infringement of Article 56 TFEU — Restriction on freedom to provide services — National legislation making the activities of temporary work agencies established in other Member States subject to a set of requirements — Unjustified obstacles
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by making the temporary work agencies providing their services in the territory of the Brussels Capital Region subject to the following requirements:
               
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                           that they have as their sole business activity that of the provision of workers, and
                        
                     
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                           that they have a particular legal form,
                           the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 56 TFEU;
                        
                     
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 301, 6.11.2010.