CELEX: C2007/042/24
Language: en
Date: 2007-02-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-517/06: Action brought on 20 December 2006 — Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Austria

24.2.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 42/14
            
         Action brought on 20 December 2006 — Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Austria
   (Case C-517/06)
   (2007/C 42/24)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: G. Braun and E. Montaguti)
   
      Defendants: Republic of Austria
   Form of order sought
   The Court is asked to:
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt, in the Steiermark and Salzburg Länder, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the re-use of public sector information (1) or, in any event, by failing to communicate them to the Commission, the Republic of Austria has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the Republic of Austria to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposition of the directive expired on 1 July 2005.
   
      (1)  OJ 2003 L 345, p. 90.