CELEX: C2004/239/15
Language: en
Date: 2004-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-335/04: Action brought on 30 July 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Republic of Austria

25.9.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 239/8
            
         Action brought on 30 July 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Republic of Austria
   (Case C-335/04)
   (2004/C 239/15)
   An action against the Republic of Austria was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 30 July 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by Denis Martin, of its legal service and Horstpeter Kreppel, Judge of the Arbeitsgericht (Labour Court) seconded to the Commission's legal service as part of an exchange programme with national civil servants, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
               1.
            
            
               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary fully to comply with Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin (1), or to notify the Commission of any such provisions, the Republic of Austria has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the Republic of Austria to pay the costs of the proceedings.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments:
   The period for transposition of Directive 2000/43/EC expired on 19 July 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ L 180, 19.7.2000, p. 22.