CELEX: C2007/211/24
Language: en
Date: 2007-09-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-271/07: Action brought on 7 June 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium

8.9.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 211/13
            
         Action brought on 7 June 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium
   (Case C-271/07)
   (2007/C 211/24)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: A. Alcover San Pedro and J.-B. Laignelot, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium
   Form of order sought
   
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               Declare that, by partially or incorrectly transposing Article 2(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (9), (10) and (11), Article 3, Article 5, Article 6(1), Article 8, Article 9(3), (4), (5) and (6), Article 10, Article 12(2), Article 13(1) and (2), Article 14, Article 17(2) of Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 (1) concerning integrated pollution prevention and control, and Annex I and Annex IV thereto, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   By its action, the Commission complains that the defendant has transposed partially or incorrectly, or failed to transpose, a number of essential provisions of Directive 96/61. The action, which concerns the measures adopted (or not adopted) by the Region of Wallonia and the Region of Bruxelles-Capitale, relates, in particular, to the lack of correspondence between the material scope of application of those measures and that of the Directive and to the over-wide power of assessment given to the regional authorities with regard to the operating permits and the situations in which the conditions of the permit must be re-assessed and/or updated.
   
      (1)  OJ L 257, p. 26.