CELEX: 62008CN0331
Language: en
Date: 2008-07-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-331/08: Action brought on 18 July 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

25.10.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 272/9
            
         Action brought on 18 July 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
   (Case C-331/08)
   (2008/C 272/13)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: U. Wölker and G. Rozet, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
   Form of order sought
   
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               Declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2004/35/CE of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage (1), or in any event by failing to notify those provisions to the Commission, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 19 of that directive;
            
         
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               order the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposition of Directive 2004/35/EC expired on 30 April 2007. At the date on which the present action was brought, the defendant had not yet adopted the measures necessary for transposition.
   
      (1)  OJ L 143, p. 56.