CELEX: C2005/115/32
Language: en
Date: 2005-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-160/05: Action brought on 6 April 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the French Republic

14.5.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 115/17
            
         Action brought on 6 April 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the French Republic
   (Case C-160/05)
   (2005/C 115/32)
   Language of the case: French
   An action against the French Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 6 April 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by D. Maidani, acting as Agent, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission of the European Communities claims that the Court should:
   
               1.
            
            
               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions which are necessary in order to comply with Directive 2002/47/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 June 2002 on financial collateral arrangements (1)and, in any event, by failing to inform the Commission of them, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period for transposing the directive into national law expired on 27 December 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ L 168 of 27.06.2002, p. 43.