CELEX: 62009CN0525
Language: en
Date: 2009-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-525/09: Action brought on 17 December 2009 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic

27.2.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 51/21
            
         Action brought on 17 December 2009 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-525/09)
   2010/C 51/32
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: A. Marghelis and G. Braga da Cruz, 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 2006/21/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the management of waste from extractive industries and amending Directive 2004/35/EC, or, in any event, by failing to communicate those provisions to the Commission, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 25 of that directive.
            
         
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               Order the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period prescribed for transposing the directive expired on 30 April 2008.
   
      (1)  OJ 2006 L 102, p. 15.