CELEX: 62017CA0301
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-301/17: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 18 October 2018 — European Commission v Romania (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — 2005 Act of Accession — Obligations of the accession States — Environment — Directive 1999/31/EC — Article 14(b) — Operation of landfill sites — Closure of sites which have not been granted a permit to operate a landfill — Closure and after-care procedures)

17.12.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 455/13
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 18 October 2018 — European Commission v Romania
      (Case C-301/17) (1)
      
      ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - 2005 Act of Accession - Obligations of the accession States - Environment - Directive 1999/31/EC - Article 14(b) - Operation of landfill sites - Closure of sites which have not been granted a permit to operate a landfill - Closure and after-care procedures))
      (2018/C 455/20)
      Language of the case: Romanian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: European Commission (represented by: L. Nicolae and E. Sanfrutos Cano, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: Romania (represented by: R.-H. Radu, E. Gane, L. Liţu, O.-C. Ichim and M. Chicu, and subsequently C.-R. Canţăr, E. Gane, L. Liţu, O.-C. Ichim and M. Chicu, acting as Agents)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Declares that, by having failed to comply, as regards the 68 landfill sites in question, with the obligation to adopt all necessary measures to close down as soon as possible, under Article 7(g) and Article 13 of Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste, sites which have not been granted, in accordance with Article 8, a permit to continue to operate, Romania is in breach of its obligations under Article 14(b), in conjunction with Article 13, of that directive;
               
            
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                  Orders Romania to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 239, 24.7.2017.