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Document E2024J0005
Judgment of the Court of 22 October 2024 in Case E-5/24 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland (Failure by an EFTA State to fulfil its obligations – Failure to implement – Regulation (EU) 2018/1212 – Shareholder identification – Transmission of information – Facilitation of the exercise of shareholders rights)
Judgment of the Court of 22 October 2024 in Case E-5/24 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland (Failure by an EFTA State to fulfil its obligations – Failure to implement – Regulation (EU) 2018/1212 – Shareholder identification – Transmission of information – Facilitation of the exercise of shareholders rights)
Judgment of the Court of 22 October 2024 in Case E-5/24 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland (Failure by an EFTA State to fulfil its obligations – Failure to implement – Regulation (EU) 2018/1212 – Shareholder identification – Transmission of information – Facilitation of the exercise of shareholders rights)
OJ C, C/2025/749, 30.1.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/749/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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EN C series |
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C/2025/749 |
30.1.2025 |
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
of 22 October 2024
in Case E-5/24
EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland
(Failure by an EFTA State to fulfil its obligations – Failure to implement – Regulation (EU) 2018/1212 – Shareholder identification – Transmission of information – Facilitation of the exercise of shareholders rights)
(C/2025/749)
In Case E-5/24, EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland – APPLICATION seeking a declaration that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to make the Act referred to at point 10ga of Annex XXII to the EEA Agreement (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1212 of 3 September 2018 laying down minimum requirements implementing the provisions of Directive 2007/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards shareholder identification, the transmission of information and the facilitation of the exercise of shareholders rights), as adapted by Protocol 1 to the EEA Agreement, part of its internal legal order, the Court, composed of Páll Hreinsson, President, Bernd Hammermann (Judge-Rapporteur) and Michael Reiertsen, Judges, gave judgment on 22 October 2024, the operative part of which is as follows:
The Court hereby:
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Declares that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement by failing to make the Act referred to at point 10ga of Annex XXII to the EEA Agreement (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1212 of 3 September 2018 laying down minimum requirements implementing the provisions of Directive 2007/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards shareholder identification, the transmission of information and the facilitation of the exercise of shareholders rights), as adapted by Protocol 1 to the EEA Agreement, part of its internal legal order. |
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Orders Iceland to bear the costs of the proceedings. |
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