CELEX: 62005CJ0148
Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations
Directive 79/923/EEC
Quality of shellfish waters
Designation of shellfish waters
Pollution reduction programmes
Setting control parameters

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Incomplete transposition of Articles 3, 4 and 5 of Council Directive 79/923/EEC
of 30 October 1979 on the quality required of shellfish waters (OJ 1979 L 281, p. 47) – Failure to designate certain shellfish
waters, to establish pollution-reduction programmes and to set control parameters.
Operative part
The Court:

Declares that, by failing:
–       in accordance with Article 4 of Council Directive 79/923/EEC of 30 October 1979 on the quality required of shellfish waters,
to designate all shellfish waters requiring designation;
–       in accordance with Article 3 of Directive 79/923, to set all the required values in respect of shellfish waters designated
or requiring designation pursuant to Article 4; and
–       in accordance with Article 5 of Directive 79/923, to take all necessary measures to establish pollution reduction programmes
for waters requiring designation pursuant to Article 4,
Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;

Orders Ireland to pay the costs.