CELEX: C2004/156/16
Language: en
Date: 2004-06-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-191/04: Action brought on 26 April 2004 against the French Republic by the Commission of the European Communities

12.6.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 156/8
            
         Action brought on 26 April 2004 against the French Republic by the Commission of the European Communities
   (Case C-191/04)
   (2004/C 156/16)
   An action was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 26 April 2004 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by A. Bordes and G. Valero Jordana, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg, against the French Republic.
   The Commission of the European Communities claims that the Court should:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declare that, by not providing the information to be collected by 31 December 1999 by the competent authorities or the appropriate bodies as part of the monitoring of waste discharges and sludges introduced by Article 15 of Council Directive 91/271/EEC (1), with respect to the agglomerations concerned by the 31 December 1998 time-limit, within six months of the Commission's request of 18 December 2000, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 15(4) of that directive.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Order the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and principal arguments:
   The French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligation to provide the Commission with the information pertaining to the monitoring situation as at 31 December 1999 for the water of the agglomerations concerned by an initial time-limit laid down in the directive, namely the agglomerations having an ‘EH’ (habitat equivalent) higher than 10 000 units which discharge their water into recipient waters considered to be sensitive areas.
   
      (1)  Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21.05.1991 concerning urban waste water treatment (OJ 1991 L 135 of 30.05.1991, p. 40)