CELEX: 62008CN0503
Language: en
Date: 2008-11-20 00:00:00
Title: Case C-503/08: Action brought on 20 November 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain

10.1.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/17
            
         Action brought on 20 November 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-503/08)
   (2009/C 6/29)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: P. Dejmek and E. Adsera Ribera, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain
   Form of order sought
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2005/56/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 19 of that directive;
            
         
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               order Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposing Directive 2005/56/EC into national law expired on 15 December 2007.
   
      (1)  OJ 2005, L 310, p. 1.