Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 10 July 2008.#Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic.#Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 89/48/EEC - Recognition of higher-education diplomas awarded on completion of professional education and training of at least three years’ duration - Failure to recognise diplomas which give access to the profession of pharmacist specialising in medical biology - Failure to transpose.#Case C-307/07.

Subject of the case

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to transpose Council Directive 89/48/EEC of 21 December 1988 on a general system for the recognition of higher-education diplomas awarded on completion of professional education and training of at least three years’ duration (OJ 1989 L 19, p. 16) in relation to the profession of pharmacist specialising in medical biology.

Operative part

Operative part

The Court:

1. Declares that, by failing to adopt the measures necessary to transpose Council Directive 89/48/EEC of 21 December 1988 on a general system for the recognition of higher-education diplomas awarded on completion of professional education and training of at least three years’ duration, as amended by Directive 2002/19/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 14 May 2001, in relation to the profession of pharmacist specialising in medical biology, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;

2. Orders the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.