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Document C2005/315/02
Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 20 October 2005 in Case C-111/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Free movement of agricultural products — Directive 89/662/EEC — Article 5 — Veterinary checks in the Member State of destination of the goods — National system of prior notification imposed on importers of certain products of animal origin from other Member States)
Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 20 October 2005 in Case C-111/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Free movement of agricultural products — Directive 89/662/EEC — Article 5 — Veterinary checks in the Member State of destination of the goods — National system of prior notification imposed on importers of certain products of animal origin from other Member States)
Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 20 October 2005 in Case C-111/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Free movement of agricultural products — Directive 89/662/EEC — Article 5 — Veterinary checks in the Member State of destination of the goods — National system of prior notification imposed on importers of certain products of animal origin from other Member States)
SL C 315, 10.12.2005, p. 1–2
(ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, NL, PL, PT, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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10.12.2005 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
C 315/1 |
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
(Second Chamber)
of 20 October 2005
in Case C-111/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden (1)
(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Free movement of agricultural products - Directive 89/662/EEC - Article 5 - Veterinary checks in the Member State of destination of the goods - National system of prior notification imposed on importers of certain products of animal origin from other Member States)
(2005/C 315/02)
Language of the case: Swedish
In Case C-111/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: L. Ström van Lier and A. Bordes) v Kingdom of Sweden (Agent: A. Kruse) supported by Republic of Finland (Agent: A. Guimaraes-Purokoski) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 12 March 2003 — the Court (Second Chamber), composed of C.W.A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, R. Schintgen (Rapporteur), R. Silva de Lapuerta, P. Kūris and G. Arestis, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 20 October 2005, in which it:
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Declares that, by maintaining a system of compulsory prior notification for imports of certain food products of animal origin from other Member States, the Kingdom of Sweden has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 5 of Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal market; |
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Orders the Kingdom of Sweden to pay the costs; |
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Orders the Republic of Finland to bear its own costs. |