CELEX: E2014J0004
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-24 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 24 September 2014 in Case E-4/14 — EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland (Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfil its obligations — Failure to implement — Directive 2007/23/EC on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles)

23.4.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 131/7
            
         JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   of 24 September 2014
   in Case E-4/14
   EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland
   (Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfil its obligations — Failure to implement — Directive 2007/23/EC on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles)
   (2015/C 131/07)
   In Case E-4/14, EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland — APPLICATION for a declaration that by failing to adopt, or to notify the EFTA Surveillance Authority forthwith of, the measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 4 of Chapter XXIX of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2007/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 May 2007 on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, within the time prescribed, Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 21 of that Act and Article 7 of the EEA Agreement, the Court, composed of Carl Baudenbacher, President and Judge-Rapporteur, Per Christiansen and Páll Hreinsson, Judges, gave judgment on 24 September 2014, the operative part of which is as follows:
   The Court hereby:
   
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               Declares that by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 4 of Chapter XXIX of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2007/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 May 2007 on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles), as adapted to the Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, within the time prescribed, Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 21 of that Act and under Article 7 of the Agreement.
            
         
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               Orders Iceland to bear the costs of the proceedings.