CELEX: 62009CN0478
Language: en
Date: 2009-11-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-478/09: Action brought on 25 November 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic

30.1.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 24/39
            
         Action brought on 25 November 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic
   (Case C-478/09)
   2010/C 24/68
   Language of the case: Greek
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: S. La Pergola and M. Karanasou Apostopoulou, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Hellenic Republic
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Declare that, by not adopting the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2007/63/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2007 amending Council Directives 78/855/EEC and 82/891/EEC as regards the requirement of an independent expert’s report on the occasion of merger or division of public limited liability companies or in any event by not notifying those provisions to the Commission, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The time-limit for transposition of Directive 2007/63/EC into domestic law expired on 31 September 2008.
   
      (1)  OJ L 300, 17.11.2007, p. 47