Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 December 2007.#Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxemburg.#Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2004/50/EC - Interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system and of the trans-European conventional rail system - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period.#Case C-244/07.

Subject of the case

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2004/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 amending Council Directive 96/48/EC on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system and Directive 2001/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system (OJ 2004 L 164, p. 114).

Operative part

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 2004/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 amending Council Directive 96/48/EC on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system and Directive 2001/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to comply with its obligations under that directive;

2. Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.