CELEX: 62008TN0117
Language: en
Date: 2008-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-117/08: Action brought on 17 March 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic

9.5.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 116/17
            
         Action brought on 17 March 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic
   (Case C-117/08)
   (2008/C 116/30)
   Language of the case: Greek
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: M. Kontou-Durande and L. Pignataro)
   
      Defendant: Hellenic Republic
   Form of order sought
   
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               declare that, by not adopting the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2005/62/EC (1) of 30 September 2005 implementing Directive 2002/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards Community standards and specifications relating to a quality system for blood establishments, and in any event by not notifying those provisions to the Commission, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The time-limit for transposition of Directive 2005/62 into domestic law expired on 31 August 2006.
   
      (1)  OJ L 256, 1.10.2005, p. 41.