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Document 62006CJ0375

    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.

    European Court Reports 2007 I-00077*

    ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2007:307

    Date of document:
    24/05/2007
    Date lodged:
    14/09/2006
    Author:
    Court of Justice
    Country or organisation from which the request originates:
    Portugal
    Form:
    Judgment
    Authentic language:
    Portuguese
    Type of procedure:
    Action for failure to fulfil obligations - successful
    Defendant:
    Portugal
    Judge-Rapporteur:
    Toader
    Advocate General:
    Mengozzi
    Treaty:
    Treaty establishing the European Economic Community
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    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.

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