CELEX: C2005/031/33
Language: en
Date: 2005-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-515/04: Action brought on 15 December 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Kingdom of Belgium

5.2.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 31/16
            
         Action brought on 15 December 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-515/04)
   (2005/C 31/33)
   Language of the case: French
   An action against the Kingdom of Belgium was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 15 December 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by C. O'Reilly and R. Troosters, 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 all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof (1) and, in any event, by failing to communicate them to the Commission, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               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 31 December 2002.
   
      (1)  OJ L 212, 7.8.2001, p. 12.