CELEX: C2005/082/38
Language: en
Date: 2005-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-57/05: Action brought on 9 February 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the French Republic

2.4.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 82/18
            
         Action brought on 9 February 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the French Republic
   (Case C-57/05)
   (2005/C 82/38)
   Language of the case: French
   An action against the French Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 9 February 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by J.-P. Keppenne, acting as Agent, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission of the European Communities claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2002/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 June 2002 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to food supplements (1) or, in any event, by not informing the Commission thereof, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for the transposition of the directive into national law expired on 31 July 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ 2002 L 183, p. 51.