CELEX: C2004/262/39
Language: en
Date: 2004-10-23 00:00:00
Title: Case C-375/04: Action brought on 1 September 2004 by Commission of the European Communities against Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

23.10.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 262/22
            
         Action brought on 1 September 2004 by Commission of the European Communities against Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
   (Case C-375/04)
   (2004/C 262/39)
   An action against the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 1 September 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by M. Shotter, acting as Agent, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission of the European Communities 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 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications) (1) or, in any event, by failing to notify such provisions to the Commission, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 17 of that directive.
            
         
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               Order the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period for the transposition of the directive into national law expired on 31 October 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ L 201 of 31.7.2002, p. 37.