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Case C-321/10: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 17 February 2011 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2007/2/EC — Environment policy — Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) — Exchange and updates of data in electronic format — Incomplete transposition)

OJ C 103, 2.4.2011, p. 10–10 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

2.4.2011   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 103/10


Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 17 February 2011 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium

(Case C-321/10) (1)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2007/2/EC - Environment policy - Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) - Exchange and updates of data in electronic format - Incomplete transposition)

2011/C 103/15

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: European Commission (represented by: J. Sénéchal, Agent)

Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: T. Materne and M. Jacobs, Agents)

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt or to communicate, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) (OJ 2007 L 108, p. 1)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE), the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;

2.

Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.


(1)  OJ C 246, 11.9.2010.


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