CELEX: 62009CN0315
Language: en
Date: 2009-08-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-315/09: Action brought on 7 August 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium

24.10.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 256/13
            
         Action brought on 7 August 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-315/09)
   2009/C 256/25
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: F. Erlbacher and L. de Schietere de Lophem, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2006/88/EC of 24 October 2006 on animal health requirements for aquaculture animals and products thereof, and on the prevention and control of certain diseases in aquatic animals, (1) as amended by Commission Directive 2008/53/EC of 30 April 2008 amending Annex IV to Council Directive 2006/88/EC as regards Spring viraemia of carp (SVC), (2) or, in any event, by failing to inform the Commission of those provisions, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under those directives;
            
         
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               order the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period for the transposition of Directive 2006/88/EC expired on 1 May 2008 and the period for transposition of Directive 2008/53/EC expired on 1 August 2008. However, at the time the present action was brought, the defendant had not yet adopted all the measures necessary to transpose the directive or, in any event, had not informed the Commission thereof.
   
      (1)  OJ 2006 L 328, p. 14.
   
      (2)  OJ 2008 L 117, p. 27.