# C_2016413EN.01001001.xml

| 10.11.2016 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 413/10 |
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10.11.2016

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 413/10

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Action brought on 3 August 2016 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland

(Case E-10/16)

(2016/C 413/09)

An action against Iceland was brought before the EFTA Court on 3 August 2016 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Carsten Zatschler, Øyvind Bø and Marlene Lie Hakkebo, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, 35 Rue Belliard, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to:

| 1. | Declare that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act referred to at point 6a and at point 6e of Chapter VIII of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2014/68/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of pressure equipment) as adapted to the Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, and under Article 7 of the Agreement, by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement Article 13 of the Act within the time prescribed, or in any event by failing to inform the EFTA Surveillance Authority thereof. |
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Declare that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act referred to at point 6a and at point 6e of Chapter VIII of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2014/68/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of pressure equipment) as adapted to the Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, and under Article 7 of the Agreement, by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement Article 13 of the Act within the time prescribed, or in any event by failing to inform the EFTA Surveillance Authority thereof.

| 2. | Order Iceland to bear the costs of these proceedings. |
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Order Iceland to bear the costs of these proceedings.

Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:

Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:

| — | The application addresses Iceland’s failure to comply, no later than 13 March 2016, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 13 January 2016 regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order Directive 2014/68/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of pressure equipment, as referred to at point 6a and at point 6e of Chapter VIII of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and as adapted to that Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto (‘the Act’). |
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The application addresses Iceland’s failure to comply, no later than 13 March 2016, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 13 January 2016 regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order Directive 2014/68/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of pressure equipment, as referred to at point 6a and at point 6e of Chapter VIII of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and as adapted to that Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto (‘the Act’).

| — | The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed. |
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The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.

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