CELEX: C2005/193/11
Language: en
Date: 2005-08-06 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 16 June 2005 in Case C-191/04: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Pollution and nuisance — Urban waste water treatment — Directive 91/271/EEC)

6.8.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 193/7
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Sixth Chamber)
   of 16 June 2005
   in Case C-191/04: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Pollution and nuisance - Urban waste water treatment - Directive 91/271/EEC)
   (2005/C 193/11)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-191/04: action for failure to fulfil obligations under Article 226 EC, brought on 23 April 2004, Commission of the European Communities (Agents: A. Bordes and G. Valero Jordana) v French Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues and C. Jurgensen-Mercier) the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of A. Borg Barthet (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, A. La Pergola and A. Ó Caoimh, Judges; Advocate General: J. Kokott, Registrar: R Grass, gave a judgment on 16 June 2005, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to provide to the Commission of the European Communities, within six months of the request made on 18 December 2000, the information to be collected by 31 December 1999 by the competent authorities or appropriate bodies as part of the monitoring of discharges and residual sludge, introduced by Article 15 of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water treatment, with respect to the agglomerations concerned by the 31 December 1998 time-limit, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 15(4) of that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 156 of 12.06.2004