Court of Justice 18 February 1997, C-294/96 (Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1 In these Treaty infringement proceedings the Commission claims that the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions needed to transpose Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices (1) into national law.