Keywords
Summary

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Member States - Obligations - Supervising role conferred on the Commission - Duty of the Member States - Directive imposing an obligation to provide information concerning its implementation - Obligation to communicate the reasons why there is no need to adopt implementing measures

(EEC Treaty, Arts 5 and 155)

Summary

An obligation imposed on Member States by a directive to provide the Commission with full information on the measures which they have adopted in order to comply with the directive or, as the case may be, on existing provisions which already ensure its application, also means that, if a Member State considers that certain provisions of the directive do not necessitate the adoption by it of measures to implement it domestically, that State must, before the expiry of the period of implementation, inform the Commission of the reasons for its attitude so that the Commission can make its views known in that regard.

Under Article 5 of the Treaty, Member States are required to take all appropriate measures, whether general or particular, to ensure fulfilment of the obligations arising from Community law and to facilitate the achievement of the Community' s tasks. To that end, they must cooperate loyally with the Commission to enable it to ensure, pursuant to Article 155 of the Treaty, that Community law is applied.