CELEX: E2015P0002
Language: en
Date: 2015-01-21 00:00:00
Title: Action brought on 21 January 2015 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland (Case E-2/15)

19.3.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 92/36
            
         Action brought on 21 January 2015 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland
   (Case E-2/15)
   (2015/C 92/10)
   An action against Iceland was brought before the EFTA Court on 21 January 2015 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Xavier Lewis and Janne Tysnes Kaasin, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, Rue Belliard 35, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.
   The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to:
   
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               declare that by failing to adopt the measures necessary to make as such part of its internal legal order the Act referred to at point 66he of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 104/2013 of 4 February 2013 amending Regulation (EU) No 185/2010 as regards the screening of passengers and persons other than passengers by Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) equipment in combination with Hand Held Metal Detection (HHMD) equipment), as adapted to the Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, within the time prescribed, Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the Agreement;
            
         
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               order Iceland to bear the costs of these proceedings.
            
         
      Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:
   
   
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               The application addresses Iceland’s failure to comply, no later than 9 September 2014, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 9 July 2014 regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 104/2013 of 4 February 2013 amending Regulation (EU) No 185/2010 as regards the screening of passengers and persons other than passengers by Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) equipment in combination with Hand Held Metal Detection (HHMD) equipment, as referred to at point 66he of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and as adapted to that Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto and the sectoral adaptations in Annex XIII (‘the Act’).
            
         
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               The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to make the Act as such part of its internal legal order within the time prescribed.