# C_2014163EN.01000901.xml

| 28.5.2014 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 163/9 |
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28.5.2014

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 163/9

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Action brought on 13 January 2014 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland

(Case E-4/14)

(2014/C 163/08)

An action against Iceland was brought before the EFTA Court on 13 January 2014 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Gjermund Mathisen and Auður Ýr Steinarsdóttir, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, Rue Belliard 35, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to:

| 1. | Declare that by failing to adopt, or to notify the EFTA Surveillance Authority forthwith of, the measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 4 of Chapter XXIX of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2007/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 May 2007 on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto, Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 21 of that Act and Article 7 of the EEA Agreement. |
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Declare that by failing to adopt, or to notify the EFTA Surveillance Authority forthwith of, the measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 4 of Chapter XXIX of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2007/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 May 2007 on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto, Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 21 of that Act and Article 7 of the EEA Agreement.

| 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 on 26 August 2013, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 26 June 2013 regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order Directive 2007/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 May 2007 on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles (‘the Act’), as referred to at point 4 of Chapter XXIX of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto. |
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The application addresses Iceland’s failure to comply, no later than on 26 August 2013, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 26 June 2013 regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order Directive 2007/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 May 2007 on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles (‘the Act’), as referred to at point 4 of Chapter XXIX of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto.

| — | The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 21 of the Act and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to adopt, or to notify the EFTA Surveillance Authority forthwith of, 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 Article 21 of the Act and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to adopt, or to notify the EFTA Surveillance Authority forthwith of, the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.

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