CELEX: 62011CJ0223
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Environment
Directive 2000/60/EC
European Union water policy
River basin district management plans
Publication and notification to the Commission
None
Information and consultation of the public on the envisaged management plans
None

Infringement of Articles 13(1), (2) and (6), 14(1)(c) and 15(1) of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of
the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (OJ 2000 L 327,
p. 1) — River basin district management plans — Publication — Information and consultation of the public — Commission not
notified of copy management plans.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Rules that, the Portuguese Republic, by failing within the prescribed period:
–        to publish the national and international river basin district management plans;
–        to publish and to submit to the public, including users, for comment the envisaged river basin district management plans,
and
–        to send the European Commission the copies of those plans,
has failed to fulfil its obligations under, respectively, Article 13(6) of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy, read in
conjunction with Article 13(1) and (2), Article 14(1)(c) and Article 15(1) of that directive;
2.
Orders the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.