CELEX: 62010CJ0276
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-22
Title: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 22 December 2010. # European Commission v Czech Republic. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Environment - Directive 2006/118/EC - Protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period. # Case C-276/10.

Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 22 December 2010 – Commission v Czech Republic
      (Case C‑276/10)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Environment – Directive 2006/118/EC – Protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration – 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
         2006/118) (see paras 9-12)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, or to communicate within the prescribed period, the measures
                  necessary to comply with Directive 2006/118/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the protection
                  of groundwater against pollution and deterioration (OJ 2006 L 372, p. 19).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative measures necessary
                     to comply with Directive 2006/118/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the protection of
                     groundwater against pollution and deterioration, the Czech Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 12
                     of that directive; 
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Czech Republic to pay the costs.