Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 8 March 2001 in Case C-266/99: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of Member State to fulfil its obligations — Quality of surface water intended for the abstraction of drinking water — Directive 75/440/EEC — Conditions of drinking water abstraction in Brittany)
Date: 2001-06-16
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European Commission, France, action for failure to fulfil an obligation, drinking water, quality standard, water pollution

C 173/16

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

16.6.2001

Article 19(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of 14 June
1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed
persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families
moving within the Community, as amended and updated by Council
Regulation (EC) No 118/97 of 2 December 1996, and the
corresponding provisions of the other sections of Chapter 1 of Title III
of that regulation preclude entitlement to Pflegegeld (care allowance)
under the Bundespflegegeldgesetz (Austrian Federal Law on care
allowance) from being subject to the condition that the person reliant
on care must be habitually resident in Austria.

1. Declares that, by failing to take the necessary measures to
ensure that
the quality of surface water intended for the
abstraction of drinking water conforms to the values laid down
pursuant to Article 3 of Council Directive 75/440/EEC of
16 June 1975 concerning the quality required of surface water
intended for the abstraction of drinking water in the Member
States, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations
under Article 4 of that directive;

2. Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 226 of 7.8.1999.

(1) OJ C 281 of 2.10.1999.

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Sixth Chamber)

of 8 March 2001

in Case C-266/99: Commission of the European Communi-
ties v French Republic (1)

(Failure of Member State to fulfil its obligations — Quality
of surface water intended for the abstraction of drinking
water — Directive 75/440/EEC — Conditions of drinking
water abstraction in Brittany)

(2001/C 173/26)

(Language of the case: French)

(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
in the European Court Reports)

In Case C-266/99: Commission of the European Communities
(Agent: M. Nolin) v French Republic (Agents: K. Rispal-
Bellanger and D. Colas) — application for a declaration that,
by failing to take the necessary measures to ensure that the
quality of surface water intended for the abstraction of drinking
water complied with the standards laid down under Article 3
of Council Directive 75/440/EEC of 16 June 1975 concerning
the quality required of surface water intended for the abstrac-
tion of drinking water in the Member States (OJ 1975 L 194,
p. 26), the French Republic failed to fulfil its obligations under
that directive, and in particular Article 4 thereof — the Court
(Sixth Chamber), composed of: C. Gulmann, President of
the Chamber, V. Skouris, J.-P. Puissochet, R. Schintgen and
F. Macken (Rapporteur), Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate Gen-
eral; L. Hewlett, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a
judgment on 8 March 2001, in which it:

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Sixth Chamber)

of 8 March 2001

in Case C-278/99 (reference for a preliminary ruling from
the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden): Criminal proceedings
against Georgius van der Burg (1)

(Technical standards and regulations — Non-approved
transmitting equipment — Advertising)

(2001/C 173/27)

(Language of the case: Dutch)

(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
in the European Court Reports)

In Case C-278/99: reference to the Court under Article 234 of
the EC Treaty from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Nether-
lands) for a preliminary ruling in the criminal proceedings
pending before that court against Georgius van der Burg — on
the interpretation of Article 1 of Council Directive 83/189/EEC
of 28 March 1983 laying down a procedure for the provision
of information in the field of technical standards and regu-
lations (OJ 1983 L 109, p. 8) — the Court (Sixth Chamber),
composed of: C. Gulmann (Rapporteur), President of the
Chamber, V. Skouris, J.-P. Puissochet, R. Schintgen and N. Col-
Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General;
neric,
R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 8 March 2001, in
which it has ruled: