CELEX: 62009CJ0515
Language: en
Date: 2010-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 29 July 2010. # European Commission v Republic of Estonia. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2006/21/EC - Management of waste from extractive industries - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-515/09.

Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 29 July 2010 – Commission v Estonia
      (Case C-515/09)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2006/21/EC – Management of waste from extractive industries – Failure to transpose within the prescribed period
      Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of the merits by the Court – Situation to be taken into consideration – Situation on expiry of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion (Art. 258 TFEU; European Parliament and Council Directive
         2006/21) (see paras 9-12)
      
      Re:
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, all the provisions necessary
                  to comply with Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the management of waste
                  from extractive industries and amending Directive 2004/35/EC (OJ 2006 L 102, p. 15).
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Declares that, by failing to adopt within the prescribed period the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary
                     to comply with Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the management of waste
                     from extractive industries and amending Directive 2004/35/EC, the Republic of Estonia has failed to fulfil its obligations
                     under that directive; 
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Republic of Estonia to pay the costs.