CELEX: C2004/314/18
Language: en
Date: 2004-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-468/04: Action brought on 4 November 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Hellenic Republic

18.12.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 314/9
            
         Action brought on 4 November 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Hellenic Republic
   (Case C-468/04)
   (2004/C 314/18)
   An action against the Hellenic Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 4 November 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by Georgios Zavvos and Arnaud Bordes, members of the Commission's Legal Service.
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2002/33/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2002 amending Council Directives 90/425/EEC and 92/118/EEC as regards health requirements for animal by-products, and in any event by failing to inform the Commission thereof, 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 period prescribed for transposing the directive into national law expired on 30 April 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ L 315 of 31.10.2002, p. 14.