CELEX: C2007/117/07
Language: en
Date: 2007-05-26 00:00:00
Title: Case C-112/07: Action brought on 26 February 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic

26.5.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 117/5
            
         Action brought on 26 February 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic
   (Case C-112/07)
   (2007/C 117/07)
   Language of the case: Italian
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: E. De Persio and M. Condou-Durande, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Italian Republic
   Forms of order sought
   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 Council Directive 2004/80/EC of 29 April 2004 relating to compensation to crime victims (1) or, in any case, by not communicating to the Commission the text of those provisions, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that Directive;
            
         
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               order the Italian Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for the transposition of Directive 2004/80/EC into national law expired on 1 January 2006, with the exception of Article 12(2) of that Directive, in respect of which the date of compliance was 1 July 2005.
   
      (1)  OJ L 261, 6.8.2004, p. 15.