CELEX: 62016CN0062
Language: en
Date: 2016-02-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-62/16: Action brought on 3 February 2016 — European Commission v Romania

25.4.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 145/20
            
         Action brought on 3 February 2016 — European Commission v Romania
   (Case C-62/16)
   (2016/C 145/26)
   Language of the case: Romanian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: S. Petrova, M. Heller and A. Biolan, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Romania
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to ensure compliance with the provisions of Directive 2012/33/EU (1) or, in any event, by failing to communicate those measures to the Commission, Romania has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 2(1) of that directive;
            
         
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               order Romania, in accordance with Article 260(3) TFEU, to pay a penalty of EUR 38 042,60 for each day of delay in complying with its obligation to communicate the measures necessary to ensure full transposition of Directive 2012/33/EU, with effect from the day on which judgment is delivered in the present case;
            
         
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               order Romania to pay the costs of the proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period for transposition of the directive into national law expired on 18 June 2014.
   
      (1)  Directive 2012/33/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 amending Council Directive 1999/32/EC as regards the sulphur content of marine fuels (OJ 2012 L 327, p. 1).