CELEX: 62010CJ0515
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 1999/31/EC
Decision 2003/33/EC
National legislation
Landfill for inert waste
Acceptance of asbestos- cement waste

Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations – Incorrect transposition of Article 2(e), the first subparagraph of Article
3 and Article 6(d) of Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste (OJ 1999 L 182, p. 1) and the
provisions of the Annex to Council Decision 2003/33/EC of 19 December 2002 establishing criteria and procedures for the acceptance
of waste at landfills pursuant to Article 16 of and Annex II to Directive 1999/31/EC (OJ 2002 L 11, p. 27) – National legislation
establishing a category of ‘inert and hazardous’ wastes, not in accordance with the directive – Landfill of asbestos-cement
waste.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to ensure that asbestos-cement
waste is treated in suitable landfills, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 2(e), the first
subparagraph of Article 3 and Article 6(d) of Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste and the
provisions of the Annex to Council Decision 2003/33/EC of 19 December 2002 establishing criteria and procedures for the acceptance
of waste at landfills pursuant to Article 16 of and Annex II to Directive 1999/31;
2.
Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.