CELEX: E2014P0001
Language: en
Date: 2014-01-10 00:00:00
Title: Action brought on 10 January 2014 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland (Case E-1/14)

8.5.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 138/30
            
         Action brought on 10 January 2014 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland
   (Case E-1/14)
   (2014/C 138/07)
   An action against Iceland was brought before the EFTA Court on 10 January 2014 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Xavier Lewis and Markus Schneider, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, Rue Belliard 35, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.
   The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to:
   
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               Declare that by failing to adopt, and/or to notify the EFTA Surveillance Authority forthwith of, all the measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 18a of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2006/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 amending Directive 1999/62/EC on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures), as adapted to the Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, within the time prescribed, Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act and under Article 7 of the Agreement.
            
         
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               Order Iceland to bear the costs of these proceedings.
            
         
      Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:
   
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               The application addresses Iceland’s failure to comply, no later than 20 April 2013, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 20 February 2013, regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order Directive 2006/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 amending Directive 1999/62/EC on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures (‘the Act’), as referred to at point 18a of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and as adapted to that Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto.
            
         
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               The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 2 of the Act and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement, by failing to adopt, and/or to notify the EFTA Surveillance Authority of, all the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.