Judgment_paragraph 43 · Commission of the European Communities v Ireland (C-494/01)

43In this context, account should be taken of the fact that, where it is a question of checking that the national provisions intended to ensure effective implementation of the directive are applied correctly in practice, the Commission which, as the Advocate General has observed in point 53 of his Opinion, does not have investigative powers of its own in the matter, is largely reliant on the information provided by any complainants and by the Member State concerned (see, by analogy, Case C-408/97 Commission v Netherlands, paragraph 17).