CELEX: C2004/228/68
Language: en
Date: 2004-09-11 00:00:00
Title: Case C-319/04: Action brought on 23 July 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the French Republic

11.9.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 228/33
            
         Action brought on 23 July 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the French Republic
   (Case C-319/04)
   (2004/C 228/68)
   An action against the French Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 23 July 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by G. Rozet, acting as Agent, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission of the European Communities claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 1999/63/EC of 21 June 1999 concerning the Agreement on the organisation of working time of seafarers concluded by the European Community Shipowners' Association (ECSA) and the Federation of Transport Workers' Unions in the European Union (FST) - Annex: European Agreement on the organisation of working time of seafarers (1), or, in any event, by failing to notify the Commission of those provisions, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 3(1) of that directive;
            
         
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               order the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The time-limit for transposition of the directive expired on 30 June 2002.
   
      (1)  OJ L 167, 2.7.1999, p. 33.