CELEX: 62012CN0151
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-151/12: Action brought on 29 March 2012 — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain

16.6.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 174/16
            
         Action brought on 29 March 2012 — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-151/12)
   2012/C 174/25
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: G. Valero Jordana and B. Simon, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Declare that, with regard to its intracommunal river basins, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 4(8), 7(2) and 10(1) and (2), and Sections 1.3 and 1.4 of Annex V, of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy; (1)
               
            
         
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               Order the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The Commission submits that the Kingdom of Spain has incorrectly transposed the provisions of Directive 2000/60/EC referred to in the form of order set out in the application, inasmuch as the Spanish legislation applies only to intercommunal river basins in Spain [whose waters flow through more than one Autonomous Community]. Consequently, those provisions have not been transposed into Spanish law as regards intracommunal river basins (whose waters flow through only one Autonomous Community).
   
      (1)  OJ 2000 L 327, p. 1.