CELEX: C2006/326/105
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-496/06: Action brought on 4 December 2006 — Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany

30.12.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 326/52
            
         Action brought on 4 December 2006 — Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany
   (Case C-496/06)
   (2006/C 326/105)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: M. Condou-Durande and W. Bogensberger, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Federal Republic of Germany
   Form of order sought
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2003/9/EC of 27 January 2003 laying down minimum standards for the reception of asylum seekers (1) or, in any event, by failing to communicate them to the Commission, the Federal Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period for transposition of the directive expired on 6 February 2005.
   
      (1)  OJ 2003 L 31, p. 18.