CELEX: 62014CN0329
Language: en
Date: 2014-07-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-329/14: Action brought on 7 July 2014  — European Commission v Republic of Finland

1.9.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 292/21
            
         Action brought on 7 July 2014 — European Commission v Republic of Finland
   (Case C-329/14)
   2014/C 292/26
   Language of the case: Finnish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: P. Hetsch, K. Hermann and I. Koskinen, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Finland
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               declare that, the Republic of Finland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 28(1) of Directive 2010/31/EU (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 May 2010 on the energy performance of buildings, because it has failed to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative measures necessary to transpose Article 2(2) and Article 9(1) into national law or, in any event, to inform the Commission of those measures either as regards mainland Finland and with regard to the Åland Islands it has failed to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative measures necessary to transpose Article 2(2) and Article 9(1) into national law or, in any event, to inform the Commission of those measures;
            
         
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               order the Republic of Finland, on the basis of Article 260(3) TFEU to pay a fine of EUR 19  178,25 per day from the date of delivery of the judgment of the Court of Justice to be paid to the European Union’s own resources account, on the ground that it has failed to fulfil its obligation to indicate the measures by which the directive will be transposed into national law.
            
         
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               order the Republic of Finland to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period within which to transpose the Directive expired on 9 July 2012.
   
      (1)  OJ 2010 L 153, p. 13.