CELEX: E2015P0023
Language: en
Date: 2015-08-17 00:00:00
Title: Action brought on 17 August 2015 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against the Principality of Liechtenstein (Case E-23/15)

10.12.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 410/8
            
         Action brought on 17 August 2015 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against the Principality of Liechtenstein
   (Case E-23/15)
   (2015/C 410/07)
   An action against the Principality of Liechtenstein was brought before the EFTA Court on 17 August 2015 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Markus Schneider, Clémence Perrin and Marlene Lie Hakkebo, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, 35 Rue Belliard, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.
   The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to:
   
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               Declare that by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement Articles 15 and 16 of the Act referred to at 15zn of Chapter XIII of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2010/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 on standards of quality and safety of human organs intended for transplantion, as corrected), as adapted to the Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, within the time prescribed, Liechtenstein has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 31 of that Act and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement.
            
         
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               Order Liechtenstein to bear the costs of these proceedings.
            
         
      Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:
   
   
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               The application addresses the failure by the Principality of Liechtenstein to comply, no later than on 11 April 2015, with a reasoned opinion delivered by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 11 February 2015 regarding that State’s failure to implement into its national legal order Directive 2010/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 on standards of quality and safety of human organs intended for transplantation, as corrected, as referred to at point 15zn of Chapter XIII of Annex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and as adapted to that Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto (‘the Act’).
            
         
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               The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Liechtenstein has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 31 of the Act and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement Articles 15 and 16 of the Acts within the time prescribed.