CELEX: C2005/031/32
Language: en
Date: 2005-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-510/04: Action brought on 13 December 2004 by Commission of the European Communities against Kingdom of Belgium

5.2.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 31/16
            
         Action brought on 13 December 2004 by Commission of the European Communities against Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-510/04)
   (2005/C 31/32)
   Language of the case: French
   An action against the Kingdom of Belgium was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 13 December 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by K. Simonsson and W. Wils, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission of the European Communities claims that the Court should:
   
               1)
            
            
               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2002/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 February 2002 on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States of the Community (1), and in any event by failing to notify them to the Commission, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               order the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period for transposition of the directive into national law expired on 9 September 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ L 67 of 9.3.2002, p. 31