CELEX: C2006/178/46
Language: en
Date: 2006-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-259/06: Action brought on  14 June 2006  — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of the Netherlands

29.7.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 178/28
            
         Action brought on 14 June 2006 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of the Netherlands
   (Case C-259/06)
   (2006/C 178/46)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: D. Maidani and W. Wils, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of the Netherlands
   Form of order sought
   
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               A declaration that, by failing to bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2002/87/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 on the supplementary supervision of credit institutions, insurance undertakings and investment firms in a financial conglomerate and amending Council Directives 73/239/EEC, 79/267/EEC, 92/49/EEC, 92/96/EEC, 93/6/EEC and 93/22/EEC, and Directives 98/78/EC and 2000/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, or in any event by failing to notify the Commission of those measures, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               An order requiring the Kingdom of the Netherlands to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period within which the directive had to be implemented expired on 11 August 2004.
   
      (1)  OJ L 35, 2003, p. 1.