CELEX: C2007/155/32
Language: en
Date: 2007-07-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-244/07: Action brought on 22 May 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

7.7.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 155/16
            
         Action brought on 22 May 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
   (Case C-244/07)
   (2007/C 155/32)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: P. Dejmek and N. Yerrell, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
   Form of order sought
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2004/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 amending Council Directive 96/48/EC on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system and Directive 2001/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system (1), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 4 of that directive;
               or in the alternative:
               declare that, by failing to communicate to the Commission the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2004/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 amending Council Directive 96/48/EC on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system and Directive 2001/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 4 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 for transposition of Directive 2004/50/EC expired on 29 April 2006.
   
      (1)  OJ 2004 L 164, p. 114, and corrigendum OJ 2004 L 220, p. 40.