CELEX: 62009CN0259
Language: en
Date: 2009-07-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-259/09: Action brought on 10 July 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

12.9.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 220/24
            
         Action brought on 10 July 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
   (Case C-259/09)
   2009/C 220/48
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: A. Marghelis, P. Van den Wyngaert, 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 2006/21/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the management of waste from extractive industries, 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;
            
         
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               order the 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 1 May 2008.
   
      (1)  OJ L 102, p. 15