CELEX: 62005CJ0226
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 96/82/EC
Major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances
Failure to transpose within the period prescribed

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure fully to transpose Articles 8(2)(b), 11, 12 and 24(1) of Council
Directive 96/82/EC of 9 December 1996 on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (OJ 1997 L 10,
p. 13).
Operative part:
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by failing to transpose, within the period prescribed:
–      the provisions of Council Directive 96/82/EC of 9 December 1996 on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous
substances into the national legislation on blasting supplies and explosives and the legislation of the
Land
Salzburg on electricity;
–      Article 11 of Directive 96/82 in the
Länder
of Salzburg, Styria and Tirol;
–      Article 12 of Directive 96/82 in the
Land
of Upper Austria; and
–      Article 8(2)(b) of Directive 96/82 in the
Länder
of Upper Austria, Salzburg and Tirol,
the Republic of Austria has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
2.
Orders the Republic of Austria to pay the costs.