CELEX: 62010CN0208
Language: en
Date: 2010-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-208/10: Action brought on 30 April 2010 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic

3.7.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 179/24
            
         Action brought on 30 April 2010 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-208/10)
   2010/C 179/39
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: A. Nijenhuis and M. Teles Romão, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Portuguese Republic
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Declare that, by failing to bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2007/44/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 September 2007 amending Council Directive 92/49/EEC and Directives 2002/83/EC, 2004/39/EC, 2005/68/EC and 2006/48/EC as regards procedural rules and evaluation criteria for the prudential assessment of acquisitions and increase of holdings in the financial sector and, in any event, by failing to communicate them to the Commission, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Directive 2007/44/EC.
            
         
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               Order the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period prescribed for transposing the directive expired on 20 March 2009.
   
      (1)  OJ 2007 L 247, p. 1.