CELEX: C2006/143/47
Language: en
Date: 2006-06-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-177/06: Action brought on  4 April 2006  — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain

17.6.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 143/25
            
         Action brought on 4 April 2006 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-177/06)
   (2006/C 143/47)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre, Agent, acting as Agent(s))
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain
   Form of order sought
   
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               a declaration that, by having failed to adopt within the period prescribed all the measures necessary to comply with Articles 2 and 3 of the Commission's decisions of 20 December 2001 on a State aid scheme implemented by Spain in 1993 for certain newly established firms in Álava, Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa, documents Nos C(2001) 4448 fin, (1) C(2001) 4475 fin (2) and C(2001) 4478 fin, (3) or, in any case, by having failed to communicate such provisions to the Commission, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under those decisions and under the EC Treaty;
            
         
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               an order that the Kingdom of Spain should pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period fixed in Article 4 of the decisions for the Kingdom of Spain to communicate the implementation measures expired on 1 March 2002 without the Commission's having received any communication in that regard.
   
      (1)  OJ L 77 of 24 March 2003, p. 1
   
   
      (2)  OJ L 40 of 14 February 2003, p. 11
   
   
      (3)  OJ L 17 of 22 January 2003, p. 20