CELEX: 62008CJ0401
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 96/82/EC
Major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances
Article 11(1)(c)
Drawing up of external emergency plans for the measures to be taken outside the establishment
Failure to transpose within the prescribed period

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Breach of Article 11(1)(c) of Council Directive 96/82/EC of 9 December 1996
on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances, as amended by Directive 2003/105/EC (OJ 1997 L 10,
p. 13) – Failure to draw up certain external emergency plans for the measures to be taken outside the establishment.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by failing to draw up an external emergency plan for all establishments subject to the provisions of Article
9 of Council Directive 96/82/EC of 9 December 1996 on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances,
as amended by Directive 2003/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2003, the Republic of Austria
has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 11(1)(c) of that Directive;
2.
Orders the Republic of Austria to pay the costs.