Judgment_paragraph 38 · David Smith v Patrick Meade and Others (C-122/17)

38The Court has held on more than one occasion that the Member States’ obligation arising from a directive to achieve the result envisaged by the directive, and their duty to take all appropriate measures, whether general or particular, to ensure the fulfilment of that obligation, is binding on all the authorities of Member States, including, for matters within their jurisdiction, the courts (see, to that effect, inter alia, judgments of 10 April 1984, von Colson and Kamann, 14/83, EU:C:1984:153, paragraph 26; of 19 January 2010, Kücükdeveci, C‑555/07, EU:C:2010:21, paragraph 47; and of 19 April 2016, DI, C‑441/14, EU:C:2016:278, paragraph 30).