Judgment of the Court (Eight Chamber) of 25 October 2007 – Commission v Czech Republic
(Case C‑114/07)
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Community code relating to medicinal products for human use – Directive 2004/24/EC – Traditional herbal medicinal products – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
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 prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2004/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending, as regards traditional herbal medicinal products, Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use (OJ 2004 L 136, p. 85). |
Operative part
The Court:
1. |
| Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2004/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending, as regards traditional herbal medicinal products, Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use, the Czech Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive; |
2. |
| Orders the Czech Republic to pay the costs. |