CELEX: C2005/006/45
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-427/04: Action brought on 5 October 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Hellenic Republic

8.1.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/24
            
         Action brought on 5 October 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Hellenic Republic
   (Case C-427/04)
   (2005/C 6/45)
   Language of the case: Greek
   An action against the Hellenic Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 5 October 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by Wouter Wils and Georgios Zavvos, members of the Commission's Legal Service.
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
               1)
            
            
               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2001/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2001 on the interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system (1), and in any event by failing to inform the Commission thereof, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
            
         
               2)
            
            
               order the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposing the directive into national law expired on 20 April 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ L 110, 20.4.2001, p. 1.