CELEX: C2004/262/46
Language: en
Date: 2004-10-23 00:00:00
Title: Case C-385/04: Action brought on 7 September 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the United Kingdom

23.10.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 262/25
            
         Action brought on 7 September 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the United Kingdom
   (Case C-385/04)
   (2004/C 262/46)
   An action against the United Kingdom was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 7 September 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by Mr Wouter Wils, acting as agent, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Applicant claims that the Court should:
   
               1)
            
            
               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with 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), or in any event by failing to communicate them to the Commission, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Directive;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               order the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments:
   The period within which the directive had to be transposed expired on 20 April 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ L 110, 20.04.2001, p. 1.