CELEX: 62010CN0103
Language: en
Date: 2010-02-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-103/10: Action brought on 24 February 2010 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic

1.5.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 113/31
            
         Action brought on 24 February 2010 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-103/10)
   2010/C 113/48
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: P. Oliver and P. Andrade, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Portuguese Republic
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2006/121/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 amending Council Directive 67/548/EEC on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances in order to adapt it to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and establishing a European Chemicals Agency or, in any event, by failing to communicate those measures to the Commission, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 2 of Directive 2006/121/EC.
            
         
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               Order the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period prescribed for transposing the directive expired on 1 June 2008.
   
      (1)  OJ 2006 L 396, p. 850.