CELEX: E2015P0010
Language: en
Date: 2015-04-21 00:00:00
Title: Action brought on 21 April 2015 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland (Case E-10/15)

25.6.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 209/6
            
         Action brought on 21 April 2015 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland
   (Case E-10/15)
   (2015/C 209/05)
   An action against Iceland was brought before the EFTA Court on 21 April 2015 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Auður Ýr Steinarsdóttir and Marlene Lie Hakkebo, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, 35 Rue Belliard, B-1040 Brussels.
   The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to:
   
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               Declare that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act referred to at point 21au of Chapter III of Annex XX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, (Directive 2009/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on Stage II petrol vapour recovery during refuelling of motor vehicles at service stations), as adapted to the Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, and under Article 7 of the Agreement, by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.
            
         
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               Order Iceland to bear the costs of these proceedings.
            
         
      Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:
   
   
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               The application addresses Iceland’s failure to comply, no later than 10 February 2015, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 10 December 2014 regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order Directive 2009/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on Stage II petrol vapour recovery during refuelling of motor vehicles at service stations, as referred to at point 21au of Chapter III of Annex XX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and as adapted to that Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto (‘the Act’).
            
         
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               The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.