CELEX: 62017CN0543
Language: en
Date: 2017-11-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-543/17: Action brought on 15 September 2017 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium

6.11.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 374/23
            
         Action brought on 15 September 2017 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-543/17)
   (2017/C 374/32)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: J. Hottiaux, L. Nicolae and G. von Rintelen, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Declare that, by failing, by 1 January 2016 at the latest, to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2014/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on measures to reduce the cost of deploying high-speed electronic communications networks (OJ 2014 L 155, p. 1) or, in any event, by failing to communicate those provisions to the Commission, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 13 of that directive;
            
         
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               Order the Kingdom of Belgium to pay, in accordance with Article 260(3) TFEU, a fine in the sum of EUR 54 639,36 per diem from the date of delivery of the judgment in this action for failure to fulfil the obligation of communicating the measures transposing Directive 2014/61;
            
         
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               Order the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   By virtue of Article 13 of Directive 2014/61, the Member States were required to adopt the national transposing measures by 1 January 2016 at the latest. The Commission is of the view that the Kingdom of Belgium failed to fulfil its obligations under that provision.
   In its action, the Commission proposes that a daily fine of EUR 54 639,36 be imposed on the Kingdom of Belgium.