CELEX: C2005/082/53
Language: en
Date: 2005-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-92/05: Action brought on 21 February 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the French Republic

2.4.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 82/26
            
         Action brought on 21 February 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the French Republic
   (Case C-92/05)
   (2005/C 82/53)
   Language of the case: French
   An action against the French Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 21 February 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by Bruno Stromsky and Bernhard Schima, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2003/32/EC of 23 April 2003 introducing detailed specifications as regards the requirements laid down in Council Directive 93/42/EEC with respect to medical devices manufactured utilising tissues of animal origin, (1) the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               in the alternative, declare that by failing to notify the Commission of those provisions, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Directive 2003/32/EC;
            
         
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               order the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period for transposition of the directive into national law expired on 1 January 2004.
   
      (1)  OJ No L 105, 26.04.2003, p. 18.