CELEX: 62008CN0272
Language: en
Date: 2008-06-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-272/08: Action brought on 24 June 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain

15.8.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 209/35
            
         Action brought on 24 June 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-272/08)
   (2008/C 209/54)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission (represented by: M. Condou-Durande and E. Adsera Ribera, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain
   Form of order sought
   
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               Declare that the Kingdom of Spain, by not adopting the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to transpose Council Directive 2004/83/EC (1) of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted and, in any event, by not communicating those provisions to the Commission, has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 38 of that directive.
            
         
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               Order the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The time limit for transposition of the directive expired on 10 October 2006.
   
      (1)  OJ 2004 L 304, p. 12.