CELEX: C2005/143/16
Language: en
Date: 2005-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 14 April 2005 in Case C-171/04 Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of the Netherlands (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2001/80/EC — non-transposition)

11.6.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 143/13
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 14 April 2005
   in Case C-171/04 Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of the Netherlands (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Directive 2001/80/EC - non-transposition)
   (2005/C 143/16)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   In Case C-171/04 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M. van Beek and G. Valero Jordana) v Kingdom of the Netherlands (Agents: H. Sevenster and J. van Bakel) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 5 April 2004 — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of K. Lenaerts, President of Chamber, N. Colneric and E. Juhász (Rapporteur), Judges; M. Poiares Maduro, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 14 April 2005, in which it:
   
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               Declares that by not adopting the legislation, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2001/80/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2001 on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from large combustion plants, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the Kingdom of the Netherlands to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 106 of 30.4.2004