Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations Failure to transpose within the period prescribed Directive 2004/33/EC Technical requirements for blood and blood components
Sumário
Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 8 November 2007.
Commission of the European Communities v Czech Republic.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2004/33/EC - Technical requirements for blood and blood components - Failure to transpose within the period prescribed.
Case C-60/07.
Texto da decisão
Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 8 November 2007 – Commission v Czech Republic
(Case C‑60/07)
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2004/33/EC – Technical requirements for blood and blood components – Failure to transpose within the period prescribed
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. Member States – Obligations – Implementation of directives – Failure to fulfil obligations – National system pleaded as justification – Not permissible (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 11)
Re:
| Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, the measures necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2004/33/EC of 22 March 2004 implementing Directive 2002/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards certain technical requirements for blood and blood components (OJ 1998 L 91, p. 25). |
Operative part
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By failing to adopt, within the period prescribed, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2004/33/EC of 22 March 2004 implementing Directive 2002/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards certain technical requirements for blood and blood components, the Czech Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive. |
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The Czech Republic is ordered to pay the costs. |