CELEX: C2005/006/54
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-455/04: Action brought on 28 October 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

8.1.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/30
            
         Action brought on 28 October 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
   (Case C-455/04)
   (2005/C 6/54)
   Language of procedure: English
   An action against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 28 October 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by Carmel O'Reilly, acting as agent, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission requests the Court to:
   
               1.
            
            
               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof (1), or in any event by failing to communicate them to the Commission, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               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 31 December 2002.
   
      (1)  OJ L 212, 7.8.2001, p. 12