CELEX: C2005/193/13
Language: en
Date: 2005-08-06 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 9 June 2005 in Case C-510/04: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2002/6/EC — Formalities for ships — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

6.8.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 193/8
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 9 June 2005
   in Case C-510/04: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 2002/6/EC - Formalities for ships - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   (2005/C 193/13)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-510/04 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: K. Simonsson and W. Wils) v Kingdom of Belgium (Agent: M. Wimmer) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 13 December 2004 — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of R. Silva de Lapuerta, President of the Chamber, G. Arestis and J. Klučka (Rapporteur), Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 9 June 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt within the prescribed period the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2002/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 February 2002 on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States of the Community, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 31 of 5.2.2005.