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Case C-638/18: Action brought on 12 October 2018 — European Commission v Romania
Date: 2018-10-12
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Bucharest — Ilfov, air quality, atmospheric pollutant, environmental protection, environmental standard, infringement of EU law, national implementing measure, pollution control, prevention of pollution








C_2018445EN.01001101.xml










10.12.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 445/11






Action brought on 12 October 2018 — European Commission v Romania
(Case C-638/18)
(2018/C 445/14)
Language of the case: Romanian

Parties


Applicant: European Commission (represented by: L. Nicolae and K. Petersen, acting as Agents)

Defendant: Romania

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:






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declare that, by systematically and constantly failing, since 2007, to comply with the daily limit values for concentrations of PM10 and by constantly and systematically failing, from 2007 to 2014 inclusive, with the exception of 2013, to comply with the annual limit values for concentrations of PM10 in Zone RO32101, Bucharest, Romania has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 13(1) of Directive 2008/50/EC, (1) read in conjunction with Annex XI thereto;










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declare that, with regard to Zone RO32101, Bucharest, Romania has, since 11 June 2010, failed to fulfil the obligations laid down in Article 23(1) of Directive 2008/50/EC, read in conjunction with Section A of Annex XV thereto, in particular the obligation laid down in the second subparagraph of that provision to ensure that the period of exceeding the limit values for PM10 be as short as possible;










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order Romania to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

Since 2007, the daily limit values for concentrations of PM10 have been systematically and constantly exceeded in Zone RO32101, Bucharest. Moreover, from 2007 to 2014 inclusive, with the exception of 2013, the annual limit values for concentrations of PM10 have been exceeded in that zone. Those exceedances are sufficient for a finding of infringement of Article 13(1) of Directive 2008/50/EC, read in conjunction with Annex XI thereto.
Despite those exceedances, Romania has not established plans for that zone which comply with Article 23(1) of that directive, in particular the obligation to adopt appropriate measures so that the period of exceeding the limit values for PM10 may be as short as possible. That failure to fulfil obligations is a result of the prolonged period during which the exceedances were recorded, the lengthy timeframes laid down for putting an end to the exceedances, the lack of some of the elements set out in Section A of Annex XV to the directive, and the fact that the plans do not address all the main causes of the exceedances of the limit values and also do not lay down sufficient mandatory measures to ensure compliance with those limit values.


(1)  OJ 2008 L 152, p. 1.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.9104 — Bain Capital Private Equity/Esure Group) (Text with EEA relevance.)
Date: 2018-10-12
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, insurance, investment company, merger control








C_2018380EN.01000101.xml










22.10.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 380/1






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.9104 — Bain Capital Private Equity/Esure Group)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2018/C 380/01)
On 12 October 2018, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the internal market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1). The full text of the decision is available only in English and will be made public after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:






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in the merger section of the Competition website of the Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/). This website provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company, case number, date and sectoral indexes,










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in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32018M9104. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.9096 — Vallourec Tubes/Bpifrance Group/Vallourec Umbilicals) (Text with EEA relevance.)
Date: 2018-10-12
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, investment company, iron and steel industry, merger control








C_2018380EN.01000102.xml










22.10.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 380/1






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.9096 — Vallourec Tubes/Bpifrance Group/Vallourec Umbilicals)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2018/C 380/02)
On 12 October 2018, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the internal market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1). The full text of the decision is available only in French and will be made public after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:






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in the merger section of the Competition website of the Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/). This website provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company, case number, date and sectoral indexes,










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in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32018M9096. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.