Case C-381/07: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 6 November 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État — France) — Association nationale pour la protection des eaux et rivières — TOS v Ministère de l'écologie, du développement et de l'aménagement durables (Pollution of the aquatic environment — Directive 2006/11/EC — Article 6 — Dangerous substances — Discharges — Prior authorisation — Fixing of emission standards — Declaratory scheme — Fish farms)
Date: 2008-11-06
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: aquatic environment, dangerous substance, environmental standard, interpretation of the law, pollution control measures, water pollution, water protection

20.12.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 327/5

and an activity which falls outside the scope of those directives, that
customer is to be regarded as a taxable person even where the supply is
used solely for the purposes of the latter activity.

(1) OJ C 183, 4.8.2007.

Operative part of the judgment

Article 6 of Directive 2006/11/EC of the European Parliament and of
the Council of 15 February 2006 on pollution caused by certain
dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment of the
Community cannot be interpreted as allowing the Member States, once
programmes to reduce water pollution including environmental quality
standards have been adopted under that article, to introduce a declara-
tory scheme, in respect of facilities regarded as being low-polluting in
nature, subject to a reference to those standards and a right for the
administrative authority to object to the commencement of the opera-
tions or to impose limits on discharges specific to the facility concerned.

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 6 November
2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil
d'État — France) — Association nationale pour
la
protection des eaux et rivières — TOS v Ministère de
l'écologie, du développement et de l'aménagement durables

(1) OJ C 269, 10.11.2007.

(Case C-381/07) (1)

of

the

aquatic

environment — Directive
(Pollution
2006/11/EC — Article 6 — Dangerous
substances —
Discharges — Prior authorisation — Fixing of emission stan-
dards — Declaratory scheme — Fish farms)

(2008/C 327/07)

Language of the case: French

Referring court

Conseil d'État

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Association nationale pour la protection des eaux et
rivières — TOS

Defendant: Ministère de l'écologie, du développement et de
l'aménagement durables

Re:

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Conseil d'État — Interpre-
tation of Article 6 of Directive 2006/11/EC of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006 on pollu-
tion caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the
aquatic environment of the Community (OJ 2006 L 64, p. 52)
laying down emission stan-
— Need for prior authorisation,
dards,
into water which may contain
for all discharges
dangerous substances — Compatibility of national rules repla-
cing prior authorisation with a mere declaratory scheme in
respect of fish farms coupled, however, with a reference to the
applicable environmental quality standards and a right for the
competent administrative authority to object to the commence-
ment of operations or to impose limits on discharges specific to
the facility concerned

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 6 November
2008 — Kingdom of the Netherlands v Commission of the
European Communities

(Case C-405/07 P) (1)

(Appeal — Article 95(5) EC — Directive 98/69/EC —
Measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions from
motor vehicles — Derogating national provision advancing
the lowering of the Community limit on emissions of particu-
late matter produced by certain new diesel-powered vehicles —
Commission's refusal — Specificity of the problem — Duties
of care and to state reasons)

(2008/C 327/08)

Language of the case: Dutch

Parties

Appellant: Kingdom of
M. de Grave and C.M. Wissels, acting as Agents)

the Netherlands (represented by: D.J.

Other party to the proceedings: Commission of
the European
Communities (represented by: M. Patakia, H. van Vliet and
A. Alcover San Pedro, acting as Agents)

Re:

Appeal against the judgment of 27 June 2007 of the Court of
First Instance (Fourth Chamber) in Case T-182/06 Netherlands v
Commission, by which it dismissed the application for annulment
of Commission Decision 2006/372/EC of 3 May 2006
concerning draft national provisions notified by the Kingdom of
the Netherlands under Article 95(5) EC laying down limits on
the emissions of particulate matter by diesel-powered vehicles
(OJ 2006 L 142, p. 16)