# C_2011125EN.01001301.xml

| 28.4.2011 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 125/13 |
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Action brought on 24 February 2011 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Norway

(Case E-5/11)

2011/C 125/11

An action against Norway was brought before the EFTA Court on 24 February 2011 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Xavier Lewis and Ólafur Jóhannes Einarsson, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, 35, Rue Belliard, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to declare that:

| 1. | By failing to adopt the measures necessary to make:
(a)
the Act referred to at point 56oa of Chapter V of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a European Maritime Safety Agency), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto; and (b)
the Act referred to at point 56oa of Chapter V of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Regulation (EC) No 2038/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on multiannual funding for the action of the European Maritime Safety Agency in the field of response to pollution caused by ships and amending Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto, part of its internal legal order within the time prescribed, the Kingdom of Norway has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 EEA. | (a) | the Act referred to at point 56oa of Chapter V of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a European Maritime Safety Agency), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto; and | (b) | the Act referred to at point 56oa of Chapter V of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Regulation (EC) No 2038/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on multiannual funding for the action of the European Maritime Safety Agency in the field of response to pollution caused by ships and amending Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto, part of its internal legal order within the time prescribed, the Kingdom of Norway has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 EEA. |
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| (a) | the Act referred to at point 56oa of Chapter V of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a European Maritime Safety Agency), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto; and | | | | |
| (b) | the Act referred to at point 56oa of Chapter V of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Regulation (EC) No 2038/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on multiannual funding for the action of the European Maritime Safety Agency in the field of response to pollution caused by ships and amending Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto, part of its internal legal order within the time prescribed, the Kingdom of Norway has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 EEA. | | | | |

| 2. | The Kingdom of Norway be ordered to bear the costs of the proceedings. |
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Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:

| — | The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that the Kingdom of Norway has failed to make Regulation (EC) No 2038/2006 and Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 part of its internal legal order, within the time prescribed by EEA Joint Committee Decisions No 52/2007 and No 81/2003, respectively. |
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| — | The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Norway should have incorporated Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 2038/2006 respectively more than seven and more than three and a half years ago. It therefore considers that the Norwegian Government has had more than sufficient time to adopt the measures necessary to make the Regulations part of its internal legal order, and that it has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 EEA. |
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