Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2006:31
Date: 2006-01-12
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Fifth Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Environment;Approximation of laws
Concepts: General
Procedure: Action for failure to fulfil obligations - successful
Origin: United Kingdom

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Fifth Chamber) of 12 January 2006 in Case C-37/05: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1 (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 85/337/EEC, as amended by Directive 97/11/EC - Assessment of the effects of projects on the environment - Consents granted without assessment) (Language of the case: English) In Case C-37/05, Commission of the European Communities (Agent: M. van Beek, assisted by F. Louis and A. Capobianco, avocats) v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Agent: C. White) - Action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 31 January 2005 - the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of J. Makarczyk (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta and P. Kūris, Judges; M. Poiares Maduro, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 12 January 2006, in which it: Declares that, in failing to correctly transpose Articles 2(1) and 4 of Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC of 3 March 1997, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive; Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs. ____________ 1 - OJ C 82, 2.4.2005.