CELEX: 62021CN0789
Language: en
Date: 2021-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-789/21: Action brought on 16 December 2021 — European Commission v Republic of Bulgaria

21.2.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 84/30
            
         
      Action brought on 16 December 2021 — European Commission v Republic of Bulgaria
      (Case C-789/21)
      (2022/C 84/40)
      Language of the case: Bulgarian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: European Commission (represented by: G. Braun, L. Malferrari and Iv. Zalogin)
      
         Defendant: Republic of Bulgaria
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  declare that, by failing to connect the Bulgarian commercial register to the Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS), the Republic of Bulgaria has failed to fulfil its obligations under Directive (EU) 2017/1132 (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 relating to certain aspects of company law (OJ 2017 L 169, p. 46), and in particular Article 166 of Directive 2017/1132 and Annex III thereto, Parts A and B, footnote 2;
               
            
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                  order the Republic of Bulgaria to pay the costs of the proceedings.
               
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
      
      In breach of the abovementioned provisions of Directive (EU) 2017/1132 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 relating to certain aspects of company law (OJ 2017 L 169, p. 46), the Republic of Bulgaria has failed to connect the Bulgarian commercial register to the Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS).
      
         (1)  OJ 2017 L 169, p. 46.