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Judgment of the Court of 31 March 2015 in Case E-20/14 — EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland (Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfil its obligations — Failure to implement — Regulation (EC) No 392/2009 on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea in the event of accidents)

IO C 350, 22.10.2015, p. 6–6 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

22.10.2015   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 350/6


JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

of 31 March 2015

in Case E-20/14

EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland

(Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfil its obligations — Failure to implement — Regulation (EC) No 392/2009 on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea in the event of accidents)

(2015/C 350/09)

In Case E-20/14, EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland — APPLICATION for a declaration that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 EEA by failing to adopt the measures necessary to make, as such and within the time prescribed, part of its internal legal order the Act referred to at point 56x of Chapter V of Annex XIII to the EEA Agreement (Regulation (EC) No 392/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea in the event of accidents), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto and by Joint Committee Decision No 17/2011 of 1 April 2011, the Court, composed of Carl Baudenbacher, President, Per Christiansen and Páll Hreinsson (Judge-Rapporteur), Judges, gave judgment on 31 March 2015, the operative part of which is as follows:

The Court hereby:

1.

Declares that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing, within the time prescribed, to adopt the measures necessary to make part of its internal legal order the Act referred to at point 56x of Chapter V of Annex XIII to the EEA Agreement (Regulation (EC) No 392/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea in the event of accidents), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by way of Protocol l thereto and by Joint Committee Decision No 17/2011 of 1 April 2011.

2.

Orders Iceland to bear the costs of these proceedings.


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