CELEX: C2000/122/29
Language: en
Date: 2000-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Removal from the register of Case C-360/98

C 122/16               EN                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                    29.4.2000
Action brought on 29 February 2000 by the Commission                           Removal from the register of Case C-373/98 (1)
         of the European Communities against Ireland
                                                                                               (2000/C 122/30)
                         (Case C-70/00)
                        (2000/C 122/28)                                 By order of 13 January 2000 the President of the Court of
                                                                        Justice of the European Communities has ordered the removal
An action against Ireland was brought before the Court of               from the register of Case C-373/98: Commission of the
Justice of the European Communities on 29 February 2000 by              European Communities v French Republic.
the Commission of the European Communities, represented
by Mr Michael Shotter, a member of its Legal Service, acting as
agent, with an address for service at the office of Mr Carlos
Gómez de la Cruz, a member of its Legal Service, at the                (1) OJ C 378 of 5.12.1998.
Wagner Centre, Kirchberg, Luxembourg.
The Applicant claims that the Court should:
— declare that by failing to adopt the laws, regulations
     or administrative provisions necessary to comply with
     Commission Directive 98/36/EC (1) of 2 June 1998
     amending Directive 96/5/EC on processed cereal-based
     foods and baby foods and baby foods for infants and
     young children (2) or, an any event, by failing to inform the             Removal from the register of Case C-161/99 (1)
     Commission of those measures, Ireland has failed to fulfil
     its obligations under that Directive; and,
                                                                                               (2000/C 122/31)
— order Ireland to pay the costs.
                                                                        By order of 13 January 2000 the President of the Court of
                                                                        Justice of the European Communities has ordered the removal
Pleas in law and main arguments
                                                                        from the register of Case C-161/99: Commission of the
                                                                        European Communities v Italian Republic.
Article 249 EC (ex Article 189 of the EC Treaty) under which
a directive shall be binding as to the result to be achieved,
upon each Member State, carries by implication an obligation
on the Member States to observe the period for compliance               (1) OJ C 188 of 3.7.1999.
laid down in the directive. That period expired on 31 December
1998 without Ireland having enacted the provisions necessary
to comply with the directive referred to in the conclusions of
the Commission.
(1) OJ L 167, 12.06.1998, p. 23.
(2) Commission Directive 96/5/EC, Euratom of 16 February 1996,
    OJ L 049, 28.02.1996, p. 17.
                                                                               Removal from the register of Case C-149/99 (1)
                                                                                               (2000/C 122/32)
        Removal from the register of Case C-360/98 (1)                  By order of 14 January 2000 the President of the Court of
                                                                        Justice of the European Communities has ordered the removal
                        (2000/C 122/29)                                 from the register of Case C-149/99 (reference for a preliminary
                                                                        ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof): Johannes Blachnitzky
By order of 13 January 2000 the President of the Court of               v Landes-Grundverkehrskommission beim Amt der Tiroler
Justice of the European Communities has ordered the removal             Landesregierung.
from the register of Case C-360/98 (reference for a preliminary
ruling from the Conseil de Prud’hommes de Bobigny): Bernard
Bauduin and Laurent Blondeau v SA Renault.
                                                                        (1) OJ C 188 of 3.7.1999.
(1) OJ C 358 of 21.11.1998.