3.9.2005

Official Journal of the European Union

C 217/12

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Second Chamber)

of 14 July 2005

in Case C-433/03: Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany (1)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Negotiation, conclusion, ratification and implementation of bilateral agreements by a Member State - Transport of goods or passengers by inland waterway - External competence of the Community - Article 10 EC - Regulations (EEC) No 3921/91 and (EC) No 1356/96)

(2005/C 217/23)

Language of the case: German

In Case C-433/03, Commission of the European Communities (Agents: C. Schmidt, W. Wils and A. Manville) v Federal Republic of Germany (Agent: W.-D. Plessing, and G. Schohe, Lawyer) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 10 October 2003 — the Court (Second Chamber), composed of C.W.A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta (Rapporteur), C. Gulmann, J. Makarczyk and P. Kūris, Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 14 July 2005, in which it:

Declares that, by ratifying and implementing:

—	the agreement between the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of Romania on inland waterway transport, signed in Bonn on 22 October 1991,

—	the agreement between the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of the Republic of Poland on inland waterway transport, signed in Warsaw on 8 November 1991, and

—	the agreement between the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of Ukraine on inland waterway transport, signed in Bonn on 14 July 1992,

without consulting or cooperating with the Commission of the European Communities, the Federal Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 10 EC;

2.	Dismisses the remainder of the action;

3.	Orders the Commission of the European Communities and the Federal Republic of Germany to bear their own costs.

(1) OJ C 289 of 29.11.2003.