Court of Justice 27 May 2004, C-299/02 (Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of the Netherlands.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1. By this action, the Commission of the European Communities seeks a declaration by the Court that, by imposing requirements with regard to the nationality of the shareholders and directors of any company owning a sea-going vessel which they wish to have entered in the Netherlands register, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has failed