CELEX: C2005/143/29
Language: en
Date: 2005-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Case C-133/05: Action brought on 21 March 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Republic of Austria

11.6.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 143/20
            
         Action brought on 21 March 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Republic of Austria
   (Case C-133/05)
   (2005/C 143/29)
   Language of the case: German
   An action against the Republic of Austria was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 21 March 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by D. Martin, acting as Agent, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission of the European Communities claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt by 2 December 2003 all/the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 (1) establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, at the federal level as regards the provisions on discrimination on the grounds of disability, and at the regional level — with the exception of the regions of Vienna and Lower Austria — as regards all provisions of the directive, or in any event by failing to communicate them to the Commission, the Republic of Austria has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 18 of that directive.
            
         
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               order the Republic of Austria to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The Republic of Austria has failed to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Directive at federal level in relation to the provisions concerning discrimination on the grounds of disability, and has altogether failed, with the exception of the regions of Vienna and Lower Austria, to adopt the measures necessary to implement the directive at regional level or, in any event, has failed to communicate them to the Commission.
   
      (1)  OJ L 303, 02.12.2000, p. 16.