CELEX: E2016J0013
Language: en
Date: 2017-03-31 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 31 March 2017 in Case E-13/16 — EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland (Failure by an EFTA State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to comply — Directive 2000/30/EC — Technical roadside inspections)

13.7.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 224/16
            
         JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   of 31 March 2017
   in Case E-13/16
   EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland
   
      (Failure by an EFTA State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to comply — Directive 2000/30/EC — Technical roadside inspections)
   
   (2017/C 224/07)
   In Case E-13/16, EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland — APPLICATION for a declaration that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act referred to at point 17h of Annex XIII to the EEA Agreement (Directive 2000/30/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 June 2000 on the technical roadside inspection of the roadworthiness of commercial vehicles circulating in the Community) by not introducing the technical roadside inspections required by Article 3(1) of the Act, the Court, composed of Carl Baudenbacher, President, Per Christiansen and Páll Hreinsson (Judge-Rapporteur), Judges, gave judgment on 31 March 2017, the operative part of which is as follows:
   The Court hereby:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations arising from the Act referred to at point 17h of Chapter II of Annex XIII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2000/30/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 June 2000 on the technical roadside inspection of the roadworthiness of commercial vehicles circulating in the Community), as adapted to the Agreement under its Protocol 1, by not introducing, within the time prescribed, the technical roadside inspections required by Article 3(1) of the Act.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Iceland to bear the costs of the proceedings.