CELEX: 62019CA0384
Language: en
Date: 2020-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-384/19: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 2 April 2020 — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Flood risk assessment and management — Directive 2007/60/EC — Article 7(1) and (5), Article 10(1) and (2) and Article 15(1) — Flood risk management plan — Establishment — Public consultation and information — Making available to the European Commission — River basin districts ES 120 Gran Canaria, ES 122 Fuerteventura, ES 123 Lanzarote, ES 124 Tenerife, ES 125 La Palma, ES 126 La Gomera and ES 127 El Hierro (Spain))

13.7.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 230/13
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 2 April 2020 — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain
      (Case C-384/19) (1)
      
      (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Flood risk assessment and management - Directive 2007/60/EC - Article 7(1) and (5), Article 10(1) and (2) and Article 15(1) - Flood risk management plan - Establishment - Public consultation and information - Making available to the European Commission - River basin districts ES 120 Gran Canaria, ES 122 Fuerteventura, ES 123 Lanzarote, ES 124 Tenerife, ES 125 La Palma, ES 126 La Gomera and ES 127 El Hierro (Spain))
      (2020/C 230/17)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: European Commission (represented initially by E. Manhaeve and E. Sanfrutos Cano, and subsequently by M. Jauregui Gomez and E. Manhaeve, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by S. Jiménez García, acting as Agent)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                  Declares that, by failing, within the time limit prescribed, to establish, publish and notify to the European Commission the flood risk management plans in respect of the river basin districts ES 120 Gran Canaria, ES 122 Fuerteventura, ES 123 Lanzarote, ES 124 Tenerife, ES 125 La Palma, ES 126 La Gomera and ES 127 El Hierro (Spain), the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7(1) and (5) and Article 15(1) of Directive 2007/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on the assessment and management of flood risks; and by failing, within the time limit prescribed, to complete the public consultation and information on the elaboration of flood risk management plans in respect of the river basin districts ES 120 Gran Canaria, ES 122 Fuerteventura and ES 125 La Palma, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 10(1) and (2) of that directive.
               
            
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                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 270, 12.8.2019.