Judgment of the Court (First Chamber), 28 February 2013

European Commission v Hungary

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Development of the Community’s railways — Allocation of railway infrastructure capacity — Levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure — Directives 91/440/EEC and 2001/14/EC — Incomplete transposition

Case C‑473/10


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
05/04/2013 Commission v Hungary
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2013:113
28/02/2013 Commission v Hungary
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2013:113
28/02/2013 Commission v Hungary
Order
ECLI:EU:C:2011:207
04/04/2011 Commission v Hungary
Order
ECLI:EU:C:2011:76
15/02/2011 Commission v Hungary
Application (OJ)
04/12/2010 Commission v Hungary
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2012:523
06/09/2012 Commission v Hungary
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Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Failure of a State to fulfil its obligations – Failure to take, within the prescribed period, all the measures necessary to comply with Article 6(3) of and Annex II to Council Directive 91/440/EEC of 29 July 1991 on the development of the Community's railways (OJ 1991 L 237, p. 25), and Directive 2001/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2001 on the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure

Systematic classification scheme

1.
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.07 Transport
    4.07.01 Common transport policy
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.07 Transport
    4.07.01 Common transport policy
3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.00 General


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 29/09/2010

Date of the Opinion

  • 06/09/2012

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

28/02/2013


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 328 from 04.12.2010, p.19

Judgment: OJ C 114 from 20.04.2013, p.5

Name of the parties

Commission v Hungary

Notes on Academic Writings

Information not available



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Information not available

Subject-matter

  • Transport

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Action for a declaration of failure to fulfil obligations : application granted
  • Action for a declaration of failure to fulfil obligations : dismissal on substantive grounds

Formation of the Court

première chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Borg Barthet

Advocate General

Jääskinen

Language(s) of the Case

  • Hungarian

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • French