Judgment_paragraph 118 · European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany (C-718/18)

118First, as regards the principle of the Member States’ procedural autonomy, it follows from Article 288 TFEU that the Member States are required, when transposing a directive, to ensure that it is fully effective, whilst retaining a broad discretion as to the choice of ways and means of ensuring that the directive is implemented. That freedom of choice does not affect the obligation imposed on all Member States to which the directive is addressed to adopt all the measures necessary to ensure that the directive concerned is fully effective in accordance with the objective which it seeks to attain (judgment of 19 October 2016, Ormaetxea Garai and Lorenzo Almendros, C‑424/15, EU:C:2016:780, paragraph 29 and the case-law cited).

European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany (C-718/18)

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