CELEX: C2007/117/30
Language: en
Date: 2007-05-26 00:00:00
Title: Case C-159/07: Action brought on 22 March 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic

26.5.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 117/18
            
         Action brought on 22 March 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-159/07)
   (2007/C 117/30)
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: K. Simonsson and P. Andrade, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Portuguese Republic
   Form of order sought
   
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               A declaration that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2005/23/EC (1) of 8 March 2005 amending Directive 2001/25/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the minimum level of training of seafarers or, in any event, by failing to communicate them to the Commission, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               an order that the Portuguese Republic should pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposition of the directive into domestic law expired on 29 September 2005.
   
      (1)  OJ 2005 L 62, p. 14.