CELEX: C2004/262/38
Language: en
Date: 2004-10-23 00:00:00
Title: Case C-370/04: Action brought on 26 August 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Federal Republic of Germany

23.10.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 262/22
            
         Action brought on 26 August 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Federal Republic of Germany
   (Case C-370/04)
   (2004/C 262/38)
   An action against the Federal Republic of Germany was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 26 August 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by G. Braun and W. Wils of the Commission's Legal Service, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to implement Directive 2001/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2001 on the interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system (1) in national law, the Federal Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under the EC Treaty and under that directive;
            
         
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               order the defendant to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for implementation of Directive 2001/16/EC expired on 20 April 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ 2001 L 110, p. 1.