CELEX: C2006/131/63
Language: en
Date: 2006-06-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-160/06: Action brought on  24 March 2006  — Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic

3.6.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 131/33
            
         Action brought on 24 March 2006 — Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic
   (Case C-160/06)
   (2006/C 131/63)
   Language of the case: Italian
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: E. Montaguti, G. Zavvos, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Italian 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 2003/51/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2003 on the annual and consolidated accounts of certain types of companies, banks and other financial institutions and insurance undertakings, or, in any case, by failing to communicate such measures to the Commission, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               Order the Italian Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposing that directive into national law expired on 1 January 2005.
   
      (1)  OJ L 178, 17.7.2003, p. 16