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Case C-6/09: Action brought on 9 January 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium
Case C-6/09: Action brought on 9 January 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium
Case C-6/09: Action brought on 9 January 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium
IO C 69, 21.3.2009, p. 24–24
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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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-6/09)
(2009/C 69/43)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: V. Peere and P. Dejmek, Agents)
Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium
Form of order sought
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declare that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing (1) or, in any case, by not communicating all of them to the Commission, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive; |
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order the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs. |
Pleas in law and main arguments
The deadline for transposition of Directive 2005/60/EC expired on 15 December 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.