CELEX: C2007/129/24
Language: en
Date: 2007-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-206/07: Action brought on 19 April 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic

9.6.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 129/13
            
         Action brought on 19 April 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-206/07)
   (2007/C 129/24)
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: L. Pignatero and M. Afonso, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Portuguese Republic
   Form of order sought
   
               —
            
            
               A declaration that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2004/33/EC (1) of 22 March 2004 implementing Directive 2002/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards certain technical requirements for blood and blood components or, in any event, by failing to communicate them to the Commission, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               —
            
            
               an order that the Portuguese Republic should pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposition of the directive into domestic law expired on 8 February 2005.
   
      (1)  OJ 2004 L 91, p. 25.