Judgment_paragraph 13 · Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (C-360/95)

13As regards, second, the provisions of the Directive which the Kingdom of Spain considers to have been transposed by rules in force before the end of the period laid down by the Commission, it must be observed that, as the Commission has rightly pointed out, it is necessary in this case to adopt a specific measure transposing the Directive, since the second paragraph of Article 1 of the Directive expressly requires Member States to ensure that their measures transposing the Directive include a reference to it or that such reference is made when they are officially published (see, to the same effect, Case C-l 37/96 Commission v Germany [1997] ECR I-6749, paragraph 8). The measures on which the Kingdom of Spain relies, however, mentioned in paragraph 8 above, do not meet that requirement.