Press Release: Financial Penalties for the Hellenic Republic which failed to comply with a Judgment of the European Court of Justice: European Commission is referring again to the Court

On 25 June, 2009, the Commission decided to ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to impose a periodic penalty payment and a lump sum on the Hellenic Republic which failed to comply with the ruling of the ECJ on 18 July 2007 in Case C-26/07, Commission v. Hellenic Republic. The judgment of the Court had stated that the Hellenic Republic failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 18 of Directive 2004/80/EC relating to compensation to crime victims which requested Member States to notify to the Commission national measures for the implementation of the Directive.