CELEX: E2015P0018
Language: en
Date: 2015-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Action brought on 16 July 2015 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland (Case E-18/15)

29.10.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 357/4
            
         Action brought on 16 July 2015 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland
   (Case E-18/15)
   (2015/C 357/04)
   An action against Iceland was brought before the EFTA Court on 16 July 2015 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Øyvind Bø and Marlene Lie Hakkebo, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, Rue Belliard 35, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.
   The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to:
   
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               Declare that by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 56 l of Chapter V of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States and repealing Directive 2002/6/EC), as adapted to the Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, within the time prescribed, Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 14 of the Act and under Article 7 of the Agreement.
            
         
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               Order Iceland to bear the costs of these proceedings.
            
         
      Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:
   
   
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               The application addresses the failure by Iceland to comply, no later than on 18 February 2015, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 18 December 2014 regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order (Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States and repealing Directive 2002/6/EC), as referred to at point 56 l of Chapter V of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and as adapted to that Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto (‘the Act’).
            
         
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               The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 14 of the Act and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.