CELEX: 62015CN0545
Language: en
Date: 2015-10-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-545/15: Action brought on 16 October 2015 — European Commission v Republic of Poland

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 16/19
            
         Action brought on 16 October 2015 — European Commission v Republic of Poland
   (Case C-545/15)
   (2016/C 016/24)
   Language of the case: Polish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: M. Heller, K. Herrmann and E. Sanfrutos Cano, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Poland
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that, by not adopting and bringing into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to ensure compliance with Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on waste electrical and electronic equipment, (1) or in any event by not informing the Commission of those provisions, the Republic of Poland has failed to meet its obligations under Article 24(1) of that directive;
            
         
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               impose on the Republic of Poland, pursuant to Article 260(3) TFEU, for its failure to meet its obligation to notify the measures implementing Directive 2012/19/EU a penalty payment at a daily rate of EUR 71 610 from the day on which judgment is delivered in this case;
            
         
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               order the Republic of Poland to pay the costs of the proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The period for transposing Directive 2012/19/EU expired on 14 February 2014.
   
      (1)  OJ 2012 L 197, p. 38.