Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations Failure to transpose within the prescribed period Directive 2006/66/EC Batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators
Sumário
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 15 July 2010.
European Commission v Hellenic Republic.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/66/EC - Batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period.
Case C-512/09.
Texto da decisão
Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 15 July 2010 – Commission v Greece
(Case C-512/09)
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2006/66/EC – Batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
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. 258 TFEU; European Parliament and Council Directive 2006/66) (see paras 7-10)
Re:
| Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC (OJ 2006 L 266, p. 1). |
Operative part
The Court:
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Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive; |
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Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs of the proceedings. |