CELEX: C2001/173/26
Language: en
Date: 2001-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 8 March 2001 in Case C-266/99: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of Member State to fulfil its obligations — Quality of surface water intended for the abstraction of drinking water — Directive 75/440/EEC — Conditions of drinking water abstraction in Brittany)

C 173/16                 EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                          16.6.2001
Article 19(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of 14 June            1.    Declares that, by failing to take the necessary measures to
1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed                   ensure that the quality of surface water intended for the
persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families               abstraction of drinking water conforms to the values laid down
moving within the Community, as amended and updated by Council                   pursuant to Article 3 of Council Directive 75/440/EEC of
Regulation (EC) No 118/97 of 2 December 1996, and the                            16 June 1975 concerning the quality required of surface water
corresponding provisions of the other sections of Chapter 1 of Title III         intended for the abstraction of drinking water in the Member
of that regulation preclude entitlement to Pflegegeld (care allowance)           States, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations
under the Bundespflegegeldgesetz (Austrian Federal Law on care                   under Article 4 of that directive;
allowance) from being subject to the condition that the person reliant
on care must be habitually resident in Austria.                            2.    Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
(1) OJ C 226 of 7.8.1999.
                                                                           (1) OJ C 281 of 2.10.1999.
                  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                                                                                            JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                           (Sixth Chamber)
                                                                                                    (Sixth Chamber)
                           of 8 March 2001
in Case C-266/99: Commission of the European Communi-                                               of 8 March 2001
                      ties v French Republic (1)
                                                                           in Case C-278/99 (reference for a preliminary ruling from
(Failure of Member State to fulfil its obligations — Quality               the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden): Criminal proceedings
of surface water intended for the abstraction of drinking                                  against Georgius van der Burg (1)
water — Directive 75/440/EEC — Conditions of drinking
                   water abstraction in Brittany)
                                                                           (Technical standards and regulations — Non-approved
                                                                                       transmitting equipment — Advertising)
                           (2001/C 173/26)
                                                                                                     (2001/C 173/27)
                     (Language of the case: French)
                                                                                               (Language of the case: Dutch)
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
                    in the European Court Reports)
                                                                           (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
In Case C-266/99: Commission of the European Communities                                      in the European Court Reports)
(Agent: M. Nolin) v French Republic (Agents: K. Rispal-
Bellanger and D. Colas) — application for a declaration that,
by failing to take the necessary measures to ensure that the               In Case C-278/99: reference to the Court under Article 234 of
quality of surface water intended for the abstraction of drinking          the EC Treaty from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Nether-
water complied with the standards laid down under Article 3                lands) for a preliminary ruling in the criminal proceedings
of Council Directive 75/440/EEC of 16 June 1975 concerning                 pending before that court against Georgius van der Burg — on
the quality required of surface water intended for the abstrac-            the interpretation of Article 1 of Council Directive 83/189/EEC
tion of drinking water in the Member States (OJ 1975 L 194,                of 28 March 1983 laying down a procedure for the provision
p. 26), the French Republic failed to fulfil its obligations under         of information in the field of technical standards and regu-
that directive, and in particular Article 4 thereof — the Court            lations (OJ 1983 L 109, p. 8) — the Court (Sixth Chamber),
(Sixth Chamber), composed of: C. Gulmann, President of                     composed of: C. Gulmann (Rapporteur), President of the
the Chamber, V. Skouris, J.-P. Puissochet, R. Schintgen and                Chamber, V. Skouris, J.-P. Puissochet, R. Schintgen and N. Col-
F. Macken (Rapporteur), Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate Gen-               neric, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General;
eral; L. Hewlett, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a            R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 8 March 2001, in
judgment on 8 March 2001, in which it:                                     which it has ruled: