CELEX: C2007/223/12
Language: en
Date: 2007-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-382/07: Action brought on 8 August 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic

22.9.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 223/9
            
         Action brought on 8 August 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-382/07)
   (2007/C 223/12)
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: N. Yerrell and M. Telles Romão, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Portuguese Republic
   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 2004/51/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 amending Council Directive 91/440/EEC on the development of the Community's railways or, in any event, by failing to communicate them to the Commission, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposition of the directive into national law expired on 31 December 2005.
   
      (1)  OJ 2004 L 164, p. 164.