Press Release: Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-304/02. Commission of the European Communities v French Republic. For the first time the Court orders a Member State to pay both a periodic penalty payment and a lump sum fine for a serious and persistent failure to comply with Community law

Author (Corporate)	European Court of Justice: Press and Information Division
Series Title	Press Release
Series Details	No.68, 2005 (12.7.05)
Publication Date	12/07/2005
Content Type	News
Source Link	Link to Main Source http://curia.europa.eu/en/actu/communiques/cp05/aff/cp050068en.pdf
Related Links	Europa: Eur-lex: Case-law: CURIA: Case C-304/02 http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=en&Submit=Submit&alldocs=alldocs&docj=docj&docop=docop&docor=docor&docjo=docjo&numaff=304%2F02&datefs=&datefe=&nomusuel=&domaine=&mots=&resmax=100
Subject Categories	Business and Industry, Law
Countries / Regions	France