CELEX: 62008CN0523
Language: en
Date: 2008-11-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-523/08: Action brought on 27 November 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain

24.1.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 19/20
            
         Action brought on 27 November 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-523/08)
   (2009/C 19/35)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by M. Condou-Durande and M.-A. Rabanal Suárez, Agents,)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain
   Form of order sought
   
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               a declaration that the Kingdom of Spain, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2005/71/EC (1) on a specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for the purposes of scientific research and, in any case, by failing to communicate such provisions to the Commission, has failed to fulfil its obligations under that Directive;
            
         
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               an order that the Kingdom of Spain should pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period allowed for the transposition into domestic law of Directive 2005/71/EC expired on 12 October 2007.
   
      (1)  OJ 2005 L 289, p. 15.