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Document 62009CN0007

Case C-7/09: Action brought on 9 January 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium

IO C 69, 21.3.2009, p. 24–25 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

21.3.2009   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 69/24


Action brought on 9 January 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium

(Case C-7/09)

(2009/C 69/44)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: C. Cattabriga and J. Sénéchal, Agents)

Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium

Form of order sought

declare that, by not adopting all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Commission Directive 2006/86/EC of 24 October 2006 implementing Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards traceability requirements, notification of serious adverse reactions and events and certain technical requirements for the coding, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human tissues and cells (1) or, in any case, by not communicating them to the Commission, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;

order the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments

The deadline for transposition of Directive 2006/86/EC, with the exception of Article 10, expired on 1 September 2007. When this action was brought, the defendant had not yet adopted all the measures necessary to transpose the directive or, in any case, had not communicated them to the Commission.


(1)  OJ 2006 L 294, p. 32.


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