CELEX: C2005/006/55
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-457/04: Action brought on 29 October 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Portuguese Republic

8.1.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/30
            
         Action brought on 29 October 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-457/04)
   (2005/C 6/55)
   An action against the Portuguese Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 29 October 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by António Caeiros and Gregorio Valero Jordana, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               principally, declare that, by having failed to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2003/17/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 March 2003 amending Directive 98/70/EC relating to the quality of petrol and diesel fuels, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under the first paragraph of Article 2 of Directive 2003/17/EC;
            
         
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               as an ancillary matter, declare that by not having informed the Commission of such provisions forthwith, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under the first paragraph of Article 2 of Directive 2003/17/EC;
            
         
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               order the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for the transposition into national law of Directive 2003/17/EC expired on 30 June 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ 2003 L 76, p. 10.