CELEX: 62009CJ0012
Language: en
Date: 2009-11-12
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 12 November 2009. # Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/17/EC - Technical requirements for the donation, procurement and testing of human tissues and cells - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-12/09.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 12 November 2009 – Commission v Italy
      (Case C‑12/09)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2006/17/EC – Technical requirements for the donation, procurement and testing of human tissues and cells – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      1.                     Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of the 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. 8)
      2.                     Member States – Obligations – Implementation of directives – Failure to fulfil obligations – National system pleaded as justification
            – Not permissible (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 9)
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary
                  to comply with Commission Directive 2006/17/EC of 8 February 2006 implementing Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament
                  and of the Council as regards certain technical requirements for the donation, procurement and testing of human tissues and
                  cells (OJ 2006 L 38, p. 40).
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions
                     necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2006/17/EC of 8 February 2006 implementing Directive 2004/23/EC of the European
                     Parliament and of the Council as regards certain technical requirements for the donation, procurement and testing of human
                     tissues and cells, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under the first subparagraph of Article 7(1)
                     of Directive 2006/17; 
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders the Italian Republic to pay the costs.