CELEX: 62008CN0468
Language: en
Date: 2008-10-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-468/08: Action brought on 30 October 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v French Republic

10.1.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/14
            
         Action brought on 30 October 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v French Republic
   (Case C-468/08)
   (2009/C 6/22)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: H. Støvlbæk and V. Peere, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: French Republic
   Form of order sought
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications (1) or, in any event, by failing to inform the Commission thereof, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that Directive;
            
         
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               order the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period for the transposition of Directive 2005/36/EC expired on 20 October 2007. At the date of bringing this action, the defendant had not yet taken all the measures necessary to transpose the Directive or, in any event, it had not informed the Commission of them.
   
      (1)  OJ 2005 L 255, p. 22.