Case C-405/05: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 25 January 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 91/271/EEC — Pollution and nuisance — Treatment of urban waste water — Lack of measures to ensure the adequate treatment of urban waste water from a number of agglomerations)
Date: 2007-03-10
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European Commission, United Kingdom, action for failure to fulfil an obligation, urban area, wastewater, water treatment

C 56/10

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

10.3.2007

Operative part of the judgment

1. Article 3(1) of Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament
and of
the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general
framework for informing and consulting employees in the European
Community must be interpreted as precluding national legislation
which excludes, even temporarily, a specific category of workers
from the calculation of staff numbers within the meaning of that
provision.

2. Article 1(1)(a) of Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998
on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to
collective redundancies must be interpreted as precluding national
legislation which excludes, even temporarily, a specific category of
workers from the calculation of staff numbers set out in that provi-
sion.

(1) OJ C 330, 24.12.2005.

1. Declares that, by failing to take the measures necessary to ensure
that adequate treatment was provided for urban waste waters from
the agglomerations of Bangor, Brighton, Broadstairs, Carrickfergus,
Coleraine, Donaghadee, Larne, Lerwick, Londonderry, Margate,
Newtownabbey, Omagh and Portrush by 31 December 2000 at
the latest, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 4(1) and (3)
of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning
urban waste-water treatment;

2. Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 48, 25.2.2006.

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 25 January 2007
— Commission of the European Communities v United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

(Case C-405/05) (1)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive
91/271/EEC — Pollution and nuisance — Treatment of urban
waste water — Lack of measures to ensure the adequate treat-
ment of urban waste water from a number of agglomerations)

Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 18 January
a preliminary ruling from the
2007 (reference for
Rechtbank van Koophandel te Brussel, Belgium) — City
Motors Groep NV v Citroën Belux NV

(Case C-421/05) (1)

(Competition — Distribution agreement relating to motor
vehicles — Block exemption — Regulation (EC) No 1400/
2002 — Article 3(4) and (6) — Termination by the supplier
— Right to refer the dispute to an expert or arbitrator or to
apply to a national court — Express termination clause —
Compatibility with the block exemption — Validity of the
grounds for the termination — Effective review)

(2007/C 56/16)

Language of the case: English

(2007/C 56/17)

Language of the case: Dutch

Parties

Referring court

Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: S. Pardo Quintillán, X. Lewis and H. van Vliet, acting
as Agents)

Defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland (represented by: C. White, acting as Agent)

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement
of Article 4(1) and (3) of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of
21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment
(OJ
1991 L 135, p. 40) — Failure to ensure adequate treatment of
urban waste water from a number of agglomerations

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Rechtbank van Koophandel te Brussel

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: City Motors Groep NV

Defendant: Citroën Belux NV

Re:

for

a preliminary

ruling — Rechtbank

van
Reference
te Brussel — Interpretation of Article 3(6) of
koophandel
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1400/2002 of 31 July 2002
on the application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to categories of
vertical agreements and concerted practices in the motor vehicle
sector (OJ 2002 L 203, p. 30) — Prohibition on inserting an
express termination clause in a motor vehicle concession agree-
ment intended to benefit from the exemption