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Document 62009CJ0100

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 1 October 2009.
Commission of the European Communities v Czech Republic.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2007/14/EC - Detailed rules for the implementation of certain provisions of Directive 2004/109/EC - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period.
Case C-100/09.

European Court Reports 2009 I-00164*

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2009:607





Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 1 October 2009 – Commission v Czech Republic

(Case C-100/09)

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2007/14/EC – Detailed rules for the implementation of certain provisions of Directive 2004/109/EC – Failure to transpose 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. 8)

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

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the provisions necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2007/14/EC of 8 March 2007 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of certain provisions of Directive 2004/109/EC on the harmonisation of transparency requirements in relation to information about issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market (OJ 2007 L 69, p. 27).

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 Commission Directive 2007/14/EC of 8 March 2007 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of certain provisions of Directive 2004/109/EC on the harmonisation of transparency requirements in relation to information about issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market, the Czech Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 24 of that directive;

2.

Orders the Czech Republic to pay the costs.

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