Judgment_paragraph 55 · Commission of the European Communities v République de Finlande (C-229/00)

55It is settled case-law that in proceedings under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil an obligation, it is incumbent upon the Commission to prove the allegation that the obligation has not been fulfilled and to place before the Court the information needed to enable it to determine whether the obligation has not been fulfilled (see, in particular, Case C-159/94 Commission v France [1997] ECR I-5815, paragraph 102 and Case C-263/99 Commission v Italy [2001] ECR I-4195, paragraph 27).