11.1.2016
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 7/10
Action brought on 16 October 2015 — European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany
(Case C-546/15)
(2016/C 007/16)
Language of the case: German
Parties
Applicant: European Commission (represented by: C. Hermes, M. Heller and E. Sanfrutos Cano, acting as Agents)
Defendant: Federal Republic of Germany
Form of order sought
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declare that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Article 24(1) of Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on waste electrical and electronic equipment, (1) or by failing to notify those provisions to the Commission, the defendant had failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
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order the defendant, in accordance with Article 260(3) TFEU, on account of its failure to fulfil the obligation to notify implementing measures, to pay a penalty payment in the daily amount of EUR 210 078, payable to the own-resources account of the European Union, as from the date of the Court’s judgment declaring that there has been a failure to fulfil obligations;
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order Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.
Pleas in law and main arguments
The period for transposition of the directive expired on 14 February 2014.
(1) OJ 2012 L 197, p. 38.
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