CELEX: C2005/006/58
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-472/04: Action brought on 4 November 2004 by Commission of the European Communities against Italian Republic

8.1.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/31
            
         Action brought on 4 November 2004 by Commission of the European Communities against Italian Republic
   (Case C-472/04)
   (2005/C 6/58)
   Language of the case: Italian
   An action against the Italian Republic was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 4 November 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by Knut Simonsson and Claudio Loggi, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that, by failing to adopt (all) the laws, regulations and administrative provisions needed to comply with Directive 2001/96/EC (1)of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 December 2001 establishing harmonised requirements and procedures for the safe loading and unloading of bulk carriers, and by failing in any event to give the Commission notice thereof, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 17 of that directive;
            
         
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               Order the Italian Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The period prescribed for transposition expired on 5 August 2003.
   
      (1)  OJ L 13 of 16.1.2002, p. 9.