CELEX: 62008CN0368
Language: en
Date: 2008-08-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-368/08: Action brought on 8 August 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic

27.9.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 247/11
            
         Action brought on 8 August 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic
   (Case C-368/08)
   (2008/C 247/19)
   Language of the case: Greek
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: U. Wölker and I. Dimitriou)
   
      Defendant: Hellenic Republic
   Form of order sought
   
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               declare that, by not adopting the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2004/35/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage, and in any event by not notifying those provisions to the Commission, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 19(1) of that directive;
            
         
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               order the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The time-limit for transposition of Directive 2004/35/EC into domestic law expired on 30 April 2007.
   
      (1)  OJ L 143, 30.4.2004, p. 56.