Judgment of the Court of 28 January 2015 in Case E-15/14 — EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland (Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfil its obligations — Failure to implement — Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products — Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 286/2012)
Date: 2015-01-28
Institutions: EFTA Court
Subjects: EU law - national law, Iceland, infringement of EU law, labelling, national implementing measure, product designation, textile product








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Official Journal of the European Union


C 201/9





JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
of 28 January 2015
in Case E-15/14
EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland
(Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfil its obligations — Failure to implement — Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products — Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 286/2012)
(2015/C 201/09)
In Case E-15/14, EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland — APPLICATION for a declaration that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing, within the time prescribed, to adopt the measures necessary to make part of its internal legal order the Act referred to at point 4d of Chapter XI of Annex II to that Agreement (Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011 on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products and repealing Council Directive 73/44/EEC and Directives 96/73/EC and 2008/121/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, as amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 286/2012 of 27 January 2012 amending in order to include a new textile fibre name, Annex I, and, for the purposes of their adaptation to technical progress, Annexes VIII and IX to Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, the Court, composed of Carl Baudenbacher, President and Judge-Rapporteur, Per Christiansen and Páll Hreinsson, Judges, gave judgment on 28 January 2015, the operative part of which is as follows:
The Court hereby:






1.


Declares that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to adopt the measures necessary to make part of its internal legal order within the time prescribed, the Act referred to at point 4d of Chapter XI of Annex II to that Agreement, Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011 on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products and repealing Council Directive 73/44/EEC and Directives 96/73/EC and 2008/121/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, as amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 286/2012 of 27 January 2012 amending in order to include a new textile fibre name, Annex I, and, for the purposes of their adaptation to technical progress, Annexes VIII and IX to Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products, as adapted to the EEA Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto.










2.


Orders Iceland to bear the costs of the proceedings.