CELEX: 62015CN0546
Language: en
Date: 2015-10-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-546/15: Action brought on 16 October 2015 — European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 7/10
            
         Action brought on 16 October 2015 — European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany
   (Case C-546/15)
   (2016/C 007/16)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: C. Hermes, M. Heller and E. Sanfrutos Cano, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Federal Republic of Germany
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Article 24(1) of Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on waste electrical and electronic equipment, (1) or by failing to notify those provisions to the Commission, the defendant had failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the defendant, in accordance with Article 260(3) TFEU, on account of its failure to fulfil the obligation to notify implementing measures, to pay a penalty payment in the daily amount of EUR 210 078, payable to the own-resources account of the European Union, as from the date of the Court’s judgment declaring that there has been a failure to fulfil obligations;
            
         
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               order Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period for transposition of the directive expired on 14 February 2014.
   
      (1)  OJ 2012 L 197, p. 38.