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Document 62010CJ0008

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 15 July 2010.
European Commission v Grand Duchy of Luxemburg.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/46/EC - Annual accounts and consolidated accounts of companies - Failure to transpose completely within the prescribed period.
Case C-8/10.

European Court Reports 2010 I-00097*

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2010:443





Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 15 July 2010 – Commission v Luxembourg

(Case C-8/10)

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2006/46/EC – Annual accounts and consolidated accounts of companies – Failure to transpose completely within the prescribed period

1.                     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. 12)

2.                     Member States – Obligations – Implementation of directives – Failure to fulfil obligations – National system pleaded as justification – Not permissible (Art. 226 EC) (see paras 9-11, 13)

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt or to communicate, within the prescribed period, all the measures necessary to comply with Directive 2006/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 amending Council Directives 78/660/EEC on the annual accounts of certain types of companies, 83/349/EEC on consolidated accounts, 86/635/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of banks and other financial institutions and 91/674/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of insurance undertakings (OJ 2006 L 224, p. 1).

Operative part

The Court:

1.

Declares that, by failing to adopt within the prescribed period all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2006/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 amending Council Directives 78/660/EEC on the annual accounts of certain types of companies, 83/349/EEC on consolidated accounts, 86/635/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of banks and other financial institutions and 91/674/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of insurance undertakings, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;

2.

Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.

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