CELEX: 62017CN0599
Language: en
Date: 2017-10-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-599/17: Action brought on 16 October 2017 — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain

8.1.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 5/23
            
         Action brought on 16 October 2017 — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-599/17)
   (2018/C 005/30)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: J. Rius and T. Scharf, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt, before 3 July 2016, the laws, regulatory and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2015/2392 of 17 December 2015 on Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1) as regards reporting to competent authorities of actual or potential infringements of that Regulation, (2) or, in any event, by failing to notify those provisions to the Commission, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 13(1) of that Directive;
            
         
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               order the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period prescribed for the transposition of Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2015/2392 into national law expired on 3 July 2016.
   
      (1)  Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (market abuse regulation) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC (OJ 2014, L 173, p. 1).
   
      (2)  OJ 2015, L 332, p. 126.