CELEX: C2006/074/16
Language: en
Date: 2006-03-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-46/06: Action brought on  30 January 2006  by the Commission of the European Communities against the Czech Republic

25.3.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 74/9
            
         Action brought on 30 January 2006 by the Commission of the European Communities against the Czech Republic
   (Case C-46/06)
   (2006/C 74/16)
   Language of the case: Czech
   An action against the Czech Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 30 January 2006 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by L. Jelinek and W. Wils, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that, by not adopting all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, (1) or in any event by not informing the Commission thereof, the Czech Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under the following provisions of that directive: Article 3(3); Article 6(1) as regards the wording ‘any effective technological measures, which the person concerned carries out in the knowledge, or with reasonable grounds to know, that he or she is pursuing that objective’; Article 6(3); the first, fourth and fifth subparagraphs of Article 6(4); the second subparagraph of Article 7(1); Article 7(2); Article 8(2) as regards the wording ‘as well as of devices, products or components referred to in Article 6(2)’; Article 8(3); Article 10(1); and Article 11(2);
            
         
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               order the Czech Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for implementing the directive in national law expired on 1 May 2004.
   
      (1)  OJ L 167 of 22.6.2001, p. 10.