CELEX: 62013CN0240
Language: en
Date: 2013-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-240/13: Action brought on 29 April 2013 — European Commission v Republic of Estonia

29.6.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 189/11
            
         Action brought on 29 April 2013 — European Commission v Republic of Estonia
   (Case C-240/13)
   2013/C 189/21
   Language of the case: Estonian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: O. Beynet, M. Heller and L. Naaber-Kivisoo, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Estonia
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
               —
            
            
               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws and regulations to transpose Article 2(21), Article 9(5), (7) and (12), Article 10(5),the first sentence of Article 11(1), Article 11(5)(a) and (b), Article 16(2) and (3), the second, fourth and fifth sentences of Article 26(2)(c), Article 36, Article 37(1)(e), (f), (i), (k) and (p), Article 37(8), the second sentence of Article 37(10), Article 38(3), Article 40(3), and the fifth indent of point 1(a) and point 1(d), (f), (i) and (j) of Annex I of Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC, (1) or in any event by failing to notify the Commission of the adoption of the necessary provisions for transposition of the directive, the Republic of Estonia has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 49(1) of the directive;
            
         
               —
            
            
               impose on the Republic of Estonia, for breaching the obligation to notify the measures transposing the directive, in accordance with Article 260(3) TFEU, a penalty payment of EUR 5 068,8 a day from the date of the judgment of the Court of Justice;
            
         
               —
            
            
               order the Republic of Estonia to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period for transposing the directive expired on 3 March 2011.
   
      (1)  OJ 2009 L 211, p. 55.