CELEX: C2006/074/18
Language: en
Date: 2006-03-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-53/06: Action brought on  1 February 2006  by the Commission of the European Communities against the Kingdom of Spain

25.3.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 74/10
            
         Action brought on 1 February 2006 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-53/06)
   (2006/C 74/18)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   An action against the Kingdom of Spain was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 1 February 2006 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by U. Wölker and S. Pardo Quintillán, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission claims that the Court should:
   
               1.
            
            
               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2003/4/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on pub1ic access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC (2) or, in any event, by failing to communicate those provisions to the Commission, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               order the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposing Directive 2003/4 into national law expired on 14 February 2005.
   
      (1)  OJ L 41 of 14.2.2003, p. 26.
   
      (2)  OJ L 158 of 23.6.1990, p. 56.