CELEX: 62013CN0203
Language: en
Date: 2013-04-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-203/13: Action brought on 17 April 2013 — European Commission v Republic of Bulgaria

8.6.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 164/12
            
         Action brought on 17 April 2013 — European Commission v Republic of Bulgaria
   (Case C-203/13)
   2013/C 164/23
   Language of the case: Bulgarian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: O. Beynet, M. Heller and P. Mihaylova, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Bulgaria
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Declare that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to transpose Article 3(7) of, and the second subparagraph of point 1(a), and points 1(b), (c), (d), (f), (h) and (i) of Annex I to, Directive 2009/72/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC, or in any case by failing to notify the Commission of the adoption of such provisions, the Republic of Bulgaria has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 49(1) of that directive;
            
         
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               impose on the Republic of Bulgaria, pursuant to Article 260(3) TFEU, a penalty payment for failure to fulfil its obligation to notify the Commission of the measures transposing Directive 2009/72/EC at the daily rate of EUR 8 448 from the day on which judgment is delivered in the present case;
            
         
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               order the Republic of Bulgaria to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period for the adoption of measures to transpose the directive expired on 3 March 2011.
   
      (1)  OJ 2009 L 211, p. 55.