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Document 62008CJ0555
Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 4 June 2009. # Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2005/56/EC - Cross-border mergers of limited liability companies - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-555/08.
Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 4 June 2009.
Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2005/56/EC - Cross-border mergers of limited liability companies - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period.
Case C-555/08.
Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 4 June 2009.
Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2005/56/EC - Cross-border mergers of limited liability companies - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period.
Case C-555/08.
European Court Reports 2009 I-00099*
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2009:353
Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 4 June 2009 – Commission v Sweden
(Case C‑555/08)
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2005/56/EC – Cross-border mergers of limited liability companies – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of the 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. 10)
Re:
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the measures necessary to comply with Directive 2005/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies (OJ 2005 L 310, p. 1) – Financial institutions which require authorisation by a public body, in particular banks and insurance companies. |
Operative part
The Court:
1. |
Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2005/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies, with regard to financial institutions which require authorisation by a public authority, in particular certain banks and insurance companies, the Kingdom of Sweden has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive; |
2. |
Orders the Kingdom of Sweden to pay the costs. |