CELEX: C2007/042/38
Language: en
Date: 2007-02-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-5/07: Action brought on 12 January 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic

24.2.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 42/20
            
         Action brought on 12 January 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-5/07)
   (2007/C 42/38)
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: M. Condou-Durande and P. Guerra e Andrade, Acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: the Portuguese Republic
   Form of order sought
   
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               a declaration that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2003/109/EC concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents (1) or, in any case, by failing to communicate them to the Commission, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposition of that directive into domestic law expired on 23 January 2006.
   
      (1)  OJ L 16 of 23 January 2004, p. 44.