CELEX: C2004/239/09
Language: en
Date: 2004-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-256/04: Action brought on 15 June 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Hellenic Republic

25.9.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 239/5
            
         Action brought on 15 June 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Hellenic Republic
   (Case C-256/04)
   (2004/C 239/09)
   An action against the Hellenic Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 15 June 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by Arnaud Bordes and Minas Konstantinidis, of its Legal Service.
   The Commission claims that the Court should:
   
               1)
            
            
               declare that, by failing to adopt, and in any event to notify to the Commission, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2001/89/EC (1) of 23 October 2001 on Community measures for the control of classical swine fever, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               order the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period for transposition of the directive into national law expired on 31 October 2002.
   
      (1)  OJ L 316, 1.12.2001, p. 5.