CELEX: C2006/086/40
Language: en
Date: 2006-04-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-101/06: Action brought on  21 February 2006  by the Commission of the European Communities against the French Republic

8.4.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 86/21
            
         Action brought on 21 February 2006 by the Commission of the European Communities against the French Republic
   (Case C-101/06)
   (2006/C 86/40)
   Language of the case: French
   An action against the French Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 21 February 2006 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by B. Stromsky, acting as Agent, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2001/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the implementation of good clinical practice in the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use, (1) the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               declare that, in any event, by failing to inform the Commission of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2001/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the implementation of good clinical practice in the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period for transposing Directive 2001/20/EC expired on 30 April 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ 2001 L 121, p. 34.