Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations Non transposition within the prescribed period Directive 2003/86/EC Right to family reunification
Sumário
Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 6 December 2007.
Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxemburg.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2003/86/EC - Right to family reunification - Non-transposition within the prescribed period.
Case C-57/07.
Texto da decisão
Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 6 December 2007 – Commission v Luxembourg
(Case C‑57/07)
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2003/86/EC – Right to family reunification – Non-transposition within the prescribed period
1. 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. 9)
2. Acts of the institutions – Directives – Implementation by Member States (see para. 10)
| Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the measures necessary to comply with Council Directive 2003/86/EC of 22 September 2003 on the right to family reunification (OJ 2003 L 251, p. 12). |
Operative part
The Court:
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Declares that by not adopting, within the prescribed period, the legislative, regulatory and administrative measures necessary to comply with Council Directive 2003/86/EC of 22 September 2003 on the right to family reunification, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive; |
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Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs. |