CELEX: 62009CN0170
Language: en
Date: 2009-05-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-170/09: Action brought on 13 May 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v French Republic

4.7.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 153/30
            
         Action brought on 13 May 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v French Republic
   (Case C-170/09)
   2009/C 153/57
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: V. Peere and P. Dejmek, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendants: French Republic
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Declare that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulation and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing (1) and, in any event, by failing to notify them to the Commission, 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 transposition of Directive 2005/60/EC expired on 15 December 2007. At the date on which the present action was brought, the defendant still had not adopted all the transposing measures necessary or, in any event, had not notified them to the Commission.
   
      (1)  OJ L 309, p. 15.