CELEX: 62011CJ0366
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Environment
Directive 2000/60/EC
European Union action in the field of water policy
River basin management plans
Publication and notification to the Commission
Lack
Public information and consultation concerning the draft management plans
Lack

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the prescribed periods, the provisions necessary
to comply with 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) — Failure to prepare river basin management plans
within the meaning of Article 13(2), (3) and (6) and Article 15(1) of the Directive — Public information and consultation
procedure concerning the drafts of those plans — Lack.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by not preparing, within the prescribed period, all the river basin management plans, both for river basin
districts lying entirely within its territory and for international river basin districts, and by not communicating to the
European Commission a copy of those plans, within the prescribed period, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations
under Article 13(2), (3) and (6) and Article 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 and, furthermore, that by not beginning,
within the prescribed period, all the public information and consultation procedures concerning the draft river basin management
plans, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 14(1)(c) of that directive;
2.
Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.