CELEX: 62008CJ0443
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 1999/13/EC
Limitation of emissions of volatile organic compounds
Failure to transpose the concepts of ‘small installation’ and ‘substantial change’

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to have adopted all the laws and regulations necessary to transpose
correctly Articles 2(3), 2(4) and 4(4) of Council Directive 1999/13/EC of 11 March 1999 on the limitation of emissions of
volatile organic compounds due to the use of organic solvents in certain activities and installations (OJ 1999 L 85, p. 1)
– Concepts of ‘small installation’ and ‘substantial change’.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions
necessary in order correctly to transpose Articles 2(3), 2(4) and 4(4) of Council Directive 1999/13/EC of 11 March 1999 on
the limitation of emissions of volatile organic compounds due to the use of organic solvents in certain activities and installations,
the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
2.
Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.