CELEX: 62011CJ0297
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
Directive 2000/60/EC
European Union water policy
River basin management plan
Publication
Public information and consultation
Failure to notify the Commission

Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — 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 management plans — Publication — Information and consultation
of the public — Failure to send copies of management plans to the Commission.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that, by failing to draw up, by 22 December 2009, the river basin management plans for both river basins located
entirely within its own territory and international river basins, and by failing to send copies of those plans, by 22 March
2010, to the European Commission, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 13(1) to (3) and (6)
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 and, in addition, by failing to institute, by 22 December 2008, the public
information and consultation procedure regarding the draft river basin management plans, the Hellenic Republic has failed
to fulfil its obligations under Article 14(1)(c) of that directive;
2.
Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.