CELEX: C2006/036/53
Language: en
Date: 2006-02-11 00:00:00
Title: Case C-449/05: Action brought on  16 December 2005  by the Commission of the European Communities against the Italian Republic

11.2.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 36/26
            
         Action brought on 16 December 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Italian Republic
   (Case C-449/05)
   (2006/C 36/53)
   Language of the case: Italian
   An action against the Italian Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 16 December 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by C. Cattabriga and S. Visaggio, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that by not taking all the necessary legal and administrative measures to comply with Directive 2003/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 (1) on the monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents, amending Council Decision 90/424/EEC (2) and repealing Council Directive 92/117/EEC (3), or by not notifying the Commission of such measures, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under the first paragraph of Article 14(1) of that directive.
            
         
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               order the Italian Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period for implementing the directive expired on 12 April 2004.
   
      (1)  OJ L 325, 12.12.2003, p. 31.
   
      (2)  OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19.
   
      (3)  OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 38.