Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations Failure to transpose within the period prescribed Directive 2002/65/EC Distance marketing of financial services
Sumário
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 7 December 2006.
Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxemburg.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2002/65/EC - Distance marketing of financial services - Failure to transpose within the period prescribed.
Case C-127/06.
Texto da decisão
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 7 December 2006 – Commission v Luxembourg
(Case C-127/06)
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2002/65/EC – Distance marketing of financial services – 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. 7)
Re:
| Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, the provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2002 concerning the distance marketing of consumer financial services and amending Council Directive 90/619/EEC and Directives 97/7/EC and 98/27/EC (OJ 2002 L 271, p. 16). |
Operative part
The Court:
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Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the period prescribed, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2002 concerning the distance marketing of consumer financial services and amending Council Directive 90/619/EEC and Directives 97/7/EC and 98/27/EC, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 21(1) of that directive; |
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Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs. |