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Document 62005CJ0358

Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 21 June 2007.
Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/54/EC - Internal market in electricity - Failure to transpose within the period prescribed.
Case C-358/05.

European Court Reports 2007 I-00088*

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2007:365





Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 21 June 2007 – Commission v Spain

(Case C‑358/05)

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2003/54/EC – Internal market in electricity – Failure to transpose within the period prescribed

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 obligations – Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, the provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2003/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2003 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 96/92/EC – Statements made with regard to decommissioning and waste management activities (OJ 2003 L 176, p. 37).

Operative part:

The Court:

 

Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the period prescribed, the laws, regulation and administrative provisions to comply with Directive 2003/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2003 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 96/92/EC, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;

 

Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.

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