CELEX: 62009CN0531
Language: en
Date: 2009-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-531/09: Action brought on 18 December 2009 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic

27.2.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 51/22
            
         Action brought on 18 December 2009 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-531/09)
   2010/C 51/35
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: N. Yerrell and M. Teles Romão, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Portuguese Republic
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2006/38/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 amending Directive 1999/62/EC on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures and, 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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               Order the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period prescribed for transposing the directive expired on 10 June 2008.
   
      (1)  OJ 2006 L 157, p. 8.