CELEX: C2005/031/29
Language: en
Date: 2005-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-505/04: Action brought on 8 December 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

5.2.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 31/14
            
         Action brought on 8 December 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
   (Case C-505/04)
   (2005/C 31/29)
   Language of procedure: English
   An action against the United Kingdom was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 8 December 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by Hans Støvlbæk, acting as agent, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Applicant requests the Court to:
   
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               declare that by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2001/19/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2001 amending Council Directives 89/48/EEC and 92/51/EEC on the general system for the recognition of professional qualifications and Council Directives 77/452/EEC, 77/453/EEC, 78/686/EEC, 78/687/EEC, 78/1026/EEC, 78/1027/EEC, 80/154/EEC, 80/155/EEC, 85/384/EEC, 85/432/EEC, 85/433/EEC and 93/16/EEC concerning the professions of nurse responsible for general care, dental practitioner, veterinary surgeon, midwife, architect, pharmacist and doctor (1) with regard to Gibraltar or, in any event, by failing to notify such provisions to the Commission, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 16 of this Directive;
            
         
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               order the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments:
   The period within which the directive had to be transposed expired on 1 January 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ L 206, 31.7.2001, p. 1