CELEX: C2005/093/22
Language: en
Date: 2005-04-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-56/05: Action brought on 9 February 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Hellenic Republic

16.4.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 93/12
            
         Action brought on 9 February 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Hellenic Republic
   (Case C-56/05)
   (2005/C 93/22)
   Language of the case: Greek
   An action against the Hellenic Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 9 February 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by Dimitris Triandafillou, Legal Adviser, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
               1.
            
            
               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2003/48/EC (1) of 3 June 2003 on taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments or, in any event, by failing to inform the Commission of such measures, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 17 of that directive.
            
         
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               order the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposing the directive into national law expired on 1 January 2004.
   
      (1)  OJ L 157 of 26.06.2003, p. 38.