CELEX: C2005/281/27
Language: en
Date: 2005-11-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-357/05: Action brought on 23 September 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Kingdom of Spain

12.11.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 281/14
            
         Action brought on 23 September 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-357/05)
   (2005/C 281/27)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   An action against the Kingdom of Spain was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 23 September 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by B. Schima and S. Pardo Quintillán, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
               1.
            
            
               declare that, by having failed to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2003/55/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2003 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas and repealing Directive 98/30/EC or, in any case, by having failed to communicate those provisions to the Commission, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 33 of that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               order the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposition of the directive into the domestic legal system expired on 1 July 2004.
   
      (1)  OJ L 176 of 15 July 2003, p. 57