CELEX: 62012CN0308
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-26 00:00:00
Title: Case C-308/12: Action brought on 26 June 2012 — European Commission v Republic of Poland

8.9.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 273/7
            
         Action brought on 26 June 2012 — European Commission v Republic of Poland
   (Case C-308/12)
   2012/C 273/11
   Language of the case: Polish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: P. Hetsch, D. Düsterhaus and K. Herrmann, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Poland
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               declare that, by not bringing into force all of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to transpose Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives, (1) and in any event by not notifying the Commission of those provisions, the Republic of Poland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 40(1) of that directive;
            
         
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               impose on the Republic of Poland, in accordance with Article 260(3) TFEU, a periodic penalty payment for failure to comply with its obligation to notify the Commission of the measures for transposing Directive 2008/98/EC, at a daily rate of EUR 67 314,24 calculated from the date on which judgment is delivered in the present case;
            
         
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               order the Republic of Poland to pay the costs of the proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period within which Directive 2008/98/EC had to be transposed expired on 12 December 2010.
   
      (1)  OJ 2008 L 312, p. 3.