29.9.2012   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 295/17


Action brought on 25 June 2012 — European Commission v Republic of Bulgaria

(Case C-307/12)

2012/C 295/28

Language of the case: Bulgarian

Parties

Applicant: European Commission (represented by: P. Hetsch, D. Düsterhaus, S. Petrova)

Defendant: Republic of Bulgaria

Form of order sought

Declare that, by not adopting the legal or administrative provisions necessary in order to render national law compatible with Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives, (1) or at least by not notifying those provisions to the Commission, the Republic of Bulgaria has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 40 of that directive;

Order the Republic of Bulgaria, pursuant to Article 260(3) TFEU, to pay a penalty payment of EUR 15 200,80 per day, calculated from the day on which judgment is delivered in the present proceedings, on account of its failure to fulfil the obligation to notify the measures adopted in order to render its national law compatible with Directive 2008/98/EC;

Order the Republic of Bulgaria to pay the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments

The period for the adoption of measures to transpose the directive expired on 12 December 2010.


(1)  OJ L 312, 22.11.2008, p. 3.