CELEX: C2007/069/34
Language: en
Date: 2007-03-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-70/07: Action brought on 9 February 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany

24.3.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 69/14
            
         Action brought on 9 February 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Federal Republic of Germany
   (Case C-70/07)
   (2007/C 69/34)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: V. Kreuschitz and I. Kaufmann-Bühler, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Federal Republic of Germany
   Form of order sought
   
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               Declare that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to transpose Directive 2002/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (vibration) (sixteenth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) (1) or, in any event, by failing to communicate such measures to the Commission, the Federal Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 14(1) of that directive;
            
         
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               order the Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The time-limit for transposition of the directive into national law expired on 6 July 2005.
   
      (1)  OJ L 177, 2002, p. 13.