CELEX: 62008CN0284
Language: en
Date: 2008-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-284/08: Action brought on 27 June 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

30.8.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 223/32
            
         Action brought on 27 June 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
   (Case C-284/08)
   (2008/C 223/50)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by Messrs W. Roels and W. Wils, Agents)
   
      Defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 on unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market and amending Council Directive 84/450/EEC, Directives 97/7/EC, 98/27/EC and 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (‘Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’) (1), or in any event by failing to communicate them to the Commission, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Directive in its territory of Gibraltar;
            
         
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               order United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period within which the directive had to be transposed expired on 12 June 2007.
   
      (1)  OJ L 149, p. 22.