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| 28.4.2007 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 96/8 |
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Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 26 April 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic

(Case C-135/05)( 1 )

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Waste management - Directives 75/442/EEC, 91/689/EEC and 1999/31/EC)

(2007/C 96/11)

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: D. Recchia and M. Konstantinidis, Agents)

Defendant: Italian Republic (represented by: I.M. Braguglia and G. Fiengo, Agent)

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Articles 4, 8 and 9 of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1995 on waste (OJ 1975 L 194, p. 39), as amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC of 18 March 1991 (OJ 1991 L 78, p. 32) — Infringement of Article 2(1) of Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12 December 1991 on hazardous waste (OJ 1991 L 377, p. 20) — Infringement of Article 14(a), (b) and (c) of Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste (OJ 1999 L 182, p. 1).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

| 1. | Declares that, by failing to adopt all the necessary measures to ensure that:
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waste is recovered or disposed of without endangering human health and without using processes or methods which could harm the environment, and to prohibit the abandonment, dumping or uncontrolled disposal of waste; —
any holder of waste has it handled by a private or public undertaking which carries out the operations of recovery or disposal, or recovers or disposes of it himself in accordance with the provisions of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 on waste, as amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC of 18 March 1991; —
any establishment or undertaking which carries out waste-disposal operations is required to obtain a permit from the competent authority; —
on every site where tipping (discharge) of hazardous waste takes place the waste is recorded and identified, and —
as regards landfills which had already been granted a permit or were already in operation on 16 July 2001, the operator of a landfill, before 16 July 2002, prepared and presented to the competent authorities, for their approval, a conditioning plan for the site including particulars relating to the conditions of the permit and any corrective measures which the operator considered would be needed and that, following the presentation of the conditioning plan, the competent authorities took a definite decision on whether operations might continue, by closing down as soon as possible sites which had not been granted a permit to continue to operate, or by authorising the necessary work and laying down a transitional period for the completion of the plan, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 4, 8 and 9 of Directive 75/442, as amended by Directive 91/156/EEC, under Article 2(1) of Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12 December 1991 on hazardous waste, and under Article 14(a) to (c) of Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste; | — | waste is recovered or disposed of without endangering human health and without using processes or methods which could harm the environment, and to prohibit the abandonment, dumping or uncontrolled disposal of waste; | — | any holder of waste has it handled by a private or public undertaking which carries out the operations of recovery or disposal, or recovers or disposes of it himself in accordance with the provisions of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 on waste, as amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC of 18 March 1991; | — | any establishment or undertaking which carries out waste-disposal operations is required to obtain a permit from the competent authority; | — | on every site where tipping (discharge) of hazardous waste takes place the waste is recorded and identified, and | — | as regards landfills which had already been granted a permit or were already in operation on 16 July 2001, the operator of a landfill, before 16 July 2002, prepared and presented to the competent authorities, for their approval, a conditioning plan for the site including particulars relating to the conditions of the permit and any corrective measures which the operator considered would be needed and that, following the presentation of the conditioning plan, the competent authorities took a definite decision on whether operations might continue, by closing down as soon as possible sites which had not been granted a permit to continue to operate, or by authorising the necessary work and laying down a transitional period for the completion of the plan, |
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| — | waste is recovered or disposed of without endangering human health and without using processes or methods which could harm the environment, and to prohibit the abandonment, dumping or uncontrolled disposal of waste; | | | | | | | | | | |
| — | any holder of waste has it handled by a private or public undertaking which carries out the operations of recovery or disposal, or recovers or disposes of it himself in accordance with the provisions of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 on waste, as amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC of 18 March 1991; | | | | | | | | | | |
| — | any establishment or undertaking which carries out waste-disposal operations is required to obtain a permit from the competent authority; | | | | | | | | | | |
| — | on every site where tipping (discharge) of hazardous waste takes place the waste is recorded and identified, and | | | | | | | | | | |
| — | as regards landfills which had already been granted a permit or were already in operation on 16 July 2001, the operator of a landfill, before 16 July 2002, prepared and presented to the competent authorities, for their approval, a conditioning plan for the site including particulars relating to the conditions of the permit and any corrective measures which the operator considered would be needed and that, following the presentation of the conditioning plan, the competent authorities took a definite decision on whether operations might continue, by closing down as soon as possible sites which had not been granted a permit to continue to operate, or by authorising the necessary work and laying down a transitional period for the completion of the plan, | | | | | | | | | | |

| 2. | Orders the Italian Republic to pay the costs. |
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( 1 )  OJ C 132, 28.5.2005.

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