CELEX: C2005/031/26
Language: en
Date: 2005-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-498/04: Action brought on 1 December 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Hellenic Republic

5.2.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 31/13
            
         Action brought on 1 December 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Hellenic Republic
   (Case C-498/04)
   (2005/C 31/26)
   Language of the case: Greek
   An action against the Hellenic Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 1 December 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by Enrico Traversa and Yiorgos Zabbo, of its Legal service.
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               Declare that, by not adopting the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2002/83/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 November 2002 concerning life assurance which, under Article 72 thereof, repealed Directive 2002/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 March 2002 amending Council Directive 79/267/EEC as regards the solvency margin requirements for life assurance undertakings and, in any event, by not notifying those provisions to the Commission, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
            
         
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               Order the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period for transposition of the directive into national law expired on 20 September 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ 2002 L 345, p. 1.