CELEX: 62006CA0508
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-508/06: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 29 November 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Malta (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 96/59/EC — Article 11 — Waste management — Disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated terphenyls — Failure to communicate the required plans and outlines)

26.1.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 22/12
            
         Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 29 November 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Malta
   (Case C-508/06) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 96/59/EC - Article 11 - Waste management - Disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated terphenyls - Failure to communicate the required plans and outlines)
   (2008/C 22/23)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: M. Konstantinidis and D. Lawunmi, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Malta (represented by: S. Camilleri, L. Farrugia, Agents)
   Re:
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Article 11 of Council Directive 96/59/EC of 16 September 1996 on the disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCB/PCT) (OJ 1996 L 243, p. 31) — Failure to prepare and communicate to the Commission within the period laid down the plans, outlines and summaries of inventories prescribed by the directive
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to communicate the plans and outlines required under Article 11 of Council Directive 96/59/EC of 16 September 1996 on the disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCB/PCT), the Republic of Malta has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 11 of the Directive, read in conjunction with Article 54 of the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Malta to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 56, 10.3.2007.