CELEX: 62010CN0035
Language: en
Date: 2010-01-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-35/10: Action brought on 21 January 2010 — European Commission v French Republic

27.3.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 80/17
            
         Action brought on 21 January 2010 — European Commission v French Republic
   (Case C-35/10)
   2010/C 80/31
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: A. Marghelis and J. Sénéchal, Agents)
   
      Defendant: French Republic
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the management of waste from extractive industries and amending Directive 2004/35/EC (1) or, in any event, by failing to communicate those provisions to the Commission, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 25 of that directive;
            
         
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               order the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period for transposition of Directive 2006/21/EC lapsed on 30 April 2008. At the date the present action was commenced, the defendant had not yet adopted all the measures necessary to transpose the directive or, in any event, had not informed the Commission of those measures.
   
      (1)  OJ 2006 L 102, p. 15.