CELEX: 62008CA0293
Language: en
Date: 2009-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-293/08: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 5 February 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Finland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2004/83/EC — Failure to transpose within the period prescribed)

4.4.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 82/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 5 February 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Finland
   (Case C-293/08) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2004/83/EC - Failure to transpose within the period prescribed)
   (2009/C 82/15)
   Language of the case: Finnish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: M. Condou-Durande and I. Koskinen, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Finland (represented by: J. Heliskoski, Agent)
   Re:
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, the measures necessary to comply with Council Directive 2004/83/EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted (OJ 2004 L 304, p. 12)
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2004/83/EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted and, in any event, by failing to inform the Commission thereof, the Republic of Finland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Finland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 223, 30.8.2008.