CELEX: E2018P0005
Language: en
Date: 2018-11-09 00:00:00
Title: Action brought on 9 November 2018 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland (Case E-5/18)

10.1.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 9/8
            
         
      Action brought on 9 November 2018 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland
      (Case E-5/18)
      (2019/C 9/09)
      An action against Iceland was brought before the EFTA Court on 9 November 2018 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Carsten Zatschler, Catherine Howdle, and Ingibjörg Ólöf Vilhjálmsdóttir, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, 35 Rue Belliard, B-1040 Brussels.
      The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to:
      
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                  Declare that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act referred to at points 7d, 7f and 7k of Annex XIX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2013/11/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 and Directive 2009/22/EC), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement, by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed, or in any event, by failing to inform the EFTA Surveillance Authority thereof.
               
            
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                  Order Iceland to bear the costs of these proceedings.
               
            
         Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:
      
      
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                  The application addresses Iceland’s failure to comply, no later than 23 April 2018, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 21 February 2018 regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order Directive 2013/11/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 and Directive 2009/22/EC, as referred to at points 7d, 7f and 7k of Annex XIX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and as adapted to that Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto (‘the Act’).
               
            
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                  The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.