Case Comment: Commission v Italy-Case C-119/04

Liverpool Law Review

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 335-343

  Kilbey, Ian ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 57149134225     PISSN: 0144932X     EISSN: 15728625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10991-008-9048-3     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Commission v Greece C-387/97 [2002J ECR1-5047 (Greece 1), v Spain C-278/01 [2003] ECRI -14141, v France C-304/02 [2005J ECR1-626 (France 1), v France C-177/04 [2006J ECR1-2461 (France 2), the case against Italy [2006] ECR1-6885, v Germany case C 503/04, [2007] ECR1-6153, and v Portugal case C-70/06 judgment of 10 January 2008 nyr. In addition there has been an Advocate General's opinion by AG Fennelly in Commission v Greece see Case C-197/98 [2000] ECR 1-8609 (Greece 2) (withdrawn before judgment).
2. C-304/02 (France 1).
3. Case 33/88 [1989] ECR 1591.
4. Joined cases C259/91, C-331/91 and C-332/91 [1993] ECR 1-4309.
5. Case C-90/96 [1997] ECR 1-6527.
6. Commission v Italy case C-212/99 [200I]ECR 4923.
7. Case C-304/02 [2005] ECR 1-626.
8. Commission Communication SEC (2005) 1658. See also Financial Penalties for Member States who fail to comply with Judgments of the European Court of Justice: European Commission clarifies rules 'MEMO/05/482 Brussels 14 December 2005.
9. See other cases brought by the Commission against France under article 226, such as C-52/95, C-333/ 99 and the joined cases C-418/00 and C-419/00.
10. OJ C 242 of 21/08/1996 paragraphs 5 & 6.
11. " Paragraph 31 of the opinion of 29 April 2004.
12. The other co-efficients were as follows-Greece 1-6, Greece 2-10, Spain-4, France 1-10, France 2-1. In the case against Germany neither the judgment nor the AG's opinion identify the co-efficient suggested by the Commission for seriousness.
13. Memorandum, on Applying Article 171 of the EC treaty. OJ C 242, 21/08/1996.
14. SEC (2005) 1658.
15. ibid. SEC (2005) 1658., ibid., para 10.1.
16. ibid. SEC (2005) 1658., ibid., paras 10.3 & 25.
17. Hartley, Constitutional Problems of the European Union. Hart Publishing, Oxford 1999, p. 109.
18. Douglas-Scott Constitutional Law of the European Union Pearson Longman, Harlow 2002, p. 422.
19. Harlow & Rawlings Accountability and Law Enforcement: The Centralised EU Infringement Procedure (2006) EL Rev 447 at 462.
20. Communicated to the author by a Commission official. France paid a total of €77,761,250 as a result of France 1 and €759,600 as a result of France 2.
21. See Bo¨rzel Guarding the Treaty: The Compliance Strategies of the European Commission in Bo¨rzel and Cichowski (eds) The State of the European Union Volume 6 OUP Oxford 2003. The quote appears on p. 219.