CELEX: E2014J0011
Language: en
Date: 2015-01-28 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 28 January 2015 in Case E-11/14 — EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland (Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfil its obligations — Failure to implement — Directive 2011/7/EU on combating late payments in commercial transactions)

18.6.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 201/5
            
         JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   of 28 January 2015
   in Case E-11/14
   EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland
   (Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfil its obligations — Failure to implement — Directive 2011/7/EU on combating late payments in commercial transactions)
   (2015/C 201/05)
   In Case E-11/14, EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland — APPLICATION for a declaration that by failing, within the time prescribed, to adopt and/or to notify the EFTA Surveillance Authority forthwith of, all measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 2 of Annex XII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, that is Directive 2011/7/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on combating late payments in commercial transactions, as adapted to the Agreement by way of Protocol 1, Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 12 of the Act and Article 7 EEA, the Court, composed of Carl Baudenbacher, President, Per Christiansen (Judge-Rapporteur) and Páll Hreinsson, Judges, gave judgment on 28 January 2015, the operative part of which is as follows:
   The Court hereby:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 12 of the Act referred to at point 2 of Annex XII to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2011/7/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on combating late payments in commercial transactions), as adapted to the Agreement by way of Protocol 1, and under Article 7 of the Agreement, by failing to adopt all the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.
            
         
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               Orders Iceland to bear the costs of the proceedings.