Reports of Cases

2009 I-00214*

Pub somm

Subject-matter

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Articles 3(1) and 3(2), 5(1), 5(2), (3) and 5(5), of and Annex II to Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment (OJ 1991 L 135, p. 40) – Failure to identify certain areas as sensitive areas with respect to eutrophication and to subject to more stringent treatment discharges of urban waste water from agglomerations with a population equivalent of more than 10 000 into sensitive areas or areas which should have been identified as sensitive

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 10 : paragraphs 44, 355
• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 211 : paragraph 44
• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 226 : paragraphs 43, 339
• Treaty of Nice 2001 - Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice -A21 : paragraph 339
• Court of Justice - Rules of Procedure (1991) -A38P1LC : paragraph 339
• Directive 91/271 : paragraphs 32, 36, 88, 101, 119, 122, 204, 207, 222, 231, 349
• Directive 91/271 -A02PT11 : paragraphs 25 - 27, 30, 38
• Directive 91/271 -A03 : paragraphs 337, 341
• Directive 91/271 -A03P1 : paragraphs 339, 340, 342
• Directive 91/271 -A03P2 : paragraphs 338 - 340, 342
• Directive 91/271 -A05 : paragraphs 337, 344, 348, 350, 351, 355
• Directive 91/271 -A05P1 : paragraphs 29, 42, 46, 52, 56, 343
• Directive 91/271 -A05P2 : paragraphs 42, 340, 343, 356, 357
• Directive 91/271 -A05P3 : paragraphs 338, 340, 343, 347, 352, 353, 355 - 357
• Directive 91/271 -A05P5 : paragraphs 340, 343, 356, 357
• Directive 91/271 -A05P6 : paragraphs 54 - 56, 61, 62
• Directive 91/271 -N1 : paragraph 352
• Directive 91/271 -N1PTB : paragraphs 343, 347, 348
• Directive 91/271 -N2 : paragraphs 42, 46
• Directive 91/271 -N2PTALA : paragraphs 47, 52, 60, 61
• Directive 91/676 : paragraphs 122, 175, 302
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -347/88 : paragraph 339
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -293/97 : paragraphs 29, 122
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -494/01 : paragraphs 43 - 45, 341
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -280/02 : paragraphs 25 - 31, 35 - 38, 47, 162, 324, 325, 330
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -433/02 : paragraph 121
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -221/03 : paragraph 42
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -456/03 : paragraph 339
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -508/03 : paragraph 46
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -23/05 : paragraph 50
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -32/05 : paragraph 50
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -293/05 : paragraph 121
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -316/06 : paragraph 50
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -335/07 : paragraph 43
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -390/07 : paragraph 345
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -530/07 : paragraph 43

Operative part

• Reference : Directive 91/271 -A03P1
• Reference : Directive 91/271 -A03P2
• Reference : Directive 91/271 -A05P2
• Reference : Directive 91/271 -A05P3
• Reference : Directive 91/271 -A05P5

Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 17/08/2007

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

10/12/2009

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 283 from 24.11.2007, p.10

Judgment: OJ C 24 from 30.01.2010, p.4

Name of the parties

Commission v United Kingdom

Notes on Academic Writings

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Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

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Subject-matter

• Environment
  

Provisions of national law referred to

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Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

• Action for a declaration of failure to fulfil obligations : dismissal on substantive grounds
  
• Action for a declaration of failure to fulfil obligations : dismissal on grounds of inadmissibility
  
• Action for a declaration of failure to fulfil obligations : application granted
  

Formation of the Court

troisième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Ó Caoimh

Advocate General

Mengozzi

Language(s) of the Case

• English
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

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