CELEX: 62008CA0322
Language: en
Date: 2009-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-322/08: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 14 May 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2004/83/EC — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

4.7.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 153/16
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 14 May 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden
   (Case C-322/08) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2004/83/EC - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)
   2009/C 153/30
   Language of the case: Swedish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: M. Condou-Durande and J. Enegren, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Sweden (represented by: S. Johannesson, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the 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 (OJ 2004 L 304, p. 12)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, 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, the Kingdom of Sweden failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Sweden to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 223 of 30.8.2008.