CELEX: 62006CJ0375
Language: en
Date: 2007-05-24 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 24 May 2007. # Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic. # Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/105/EC - Protection of workers - Control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-375/06.

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 24 May 2007 – Commission v Portugal
      (Case C‑375/06)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Directive 2003/105/EC – Protection of workers – Control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of 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)
      Re: 
      
         Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the measures necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2003/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2003 amending Council Directive
                  96/82/EC on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (OJ 2003 L 345, p. 97).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Declares that, by not adopting, within the prescribed period, the laws regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Article 2 of Directive 2003/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2003 amending
                     Council Directive 96/82/EC on the control of major‑accident hazards involving dangerous substances, the Portuguese Republic
                     has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
                  
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.