CELEX: 62005CJ0293
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 91/271/EEC
Pollution and nuisance
Urban waste-water treatment
Province of Varese

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Breach of Article 5(2) of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning
urban waste-water treatment (OJ 1991 L 135, p. 40) – Insufficiently stringent treatment of urban waste-water from the agglomeration
of several communes of the Province of Varese situated in the basin of the River Olona.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by failing to take measures to ensure that, as from 31 December 1998, urban waste water from the agglomeration
of several communes of the Province of Varese situated in the basin of the River Olona is subject to more stringent treatment
than the secondary treatment or equivalent treatment provided for in Article 4 of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991
concerning urban waste-water treatment, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 5(2) and (5)
of that directive;
2.
Orders the Italian Republic to pay the costs.