CELEX: C1999/204/04
Language: en
Date: 1999-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 22 April 1999 in Case C-28/94 Kingdom of the Netherlands v Commission of the European Communities (EAGGF - Clearance of accounts - 1990 financial year - Butter)

17.7.1999               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                        C 204/3
Point 4(a) of Section J of Annex VI to Council Regulation (EEC)            1. Dismisses the application;
No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security
schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to               2. Orders the Kingdom of the Netherlands to pay the costs.
members of their families moving within the Community, as amended
and updated by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2001/83 of 2 June
1983, as adapted by Annex I, Part VIII, to the Act concerning the
Conditions of Accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese         (1) OJ C 76 of 12.3.1994.
Republic and the Adjustments to the Treaties, must be interpreted as
not requiring the competent Netherlands institution, to which an
application for a pro rata invalidity benefit has been made by a
worker who has suffered an incapacity for work which arose in
another Member State, to treat the periods of insurance completed by
that worker in the Netherlands after 1 July 1967 under a special
scheme for civil servants as if they were periods of insurance
completed under the Wet op de Arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekering of
18 February 1966.
                                                                                              JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
(1) OJ C 370 of 6.12.1997.
                                                                                                     (Fifth Chamber)
                                                                                                     of 22 April 1999
                                                                           in Case C-340/96: Commission of the European Communi-
                                                                           ties v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
                                                                                                          Irland (1)
                 JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                                                                           (Failure to fulfil obligations — Directive 80/778/EEC —
                         (Sixth Chamber)                                   Water intended for human consumption — Rules designed
                                                                               to ensure implementation of water-quality standards)
                         of 22 April 1999
                                                                                                     (1999/C 204/05)
in Case C-28/94 Kingdom of the Netherlands v Com-
          mission of the European Communities (1)
                                                                                                (Language of the case: English)
(EAGGF — Clearance of accounts — 1990 financial year
                             — Butter)
                          (1999/C 204/04)                                  In Case C-340/96: Commission of the European Communities
                                                                           (Agent: Richard B. Wainwright) v United Kingdom of Great
                                                                           Britain and Northern Ireland (Agent: John E. Collins, assisted
                                                                           by Derek Wyatt and Mark Hoskins) — application for a
                    (Language of the case: Dutch)                          declaration that by failing, by the acceptance of undertakings,
                                                                           — to enforce compliance by water companies with the
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published          requirements of Council Directive 80/778/EEC of 15 July
                   in the European Court Reports)                               1980 relating to the quality of water intended for human
                                                                                consumption (OJ 1980 L 229, p. 11) and
In Case C-28/94: Kingdom of the Netherlands (Agents: J.W. de
Zwaan and J.S van den Oosterkamp) v Commission of the                      — by failing thereby, to ensure that the quality of water
European Communities (Agents: T. van Rijn and M. van der                        supplied in several parts of the United Kingdom conforms
Woude) — application for partial annulment of Commission                        to the requirements of that Directive in that maximum
Decision 93/659/EC of 25 November 1993 on the clearance                         admissible concentrations for several parameters in the
of the accounts presented by the Member States in respect of                    Directive are exceeded, the United Kingdom has failed to
the expenditure for 1990 of the European Agricultural Guid-                     fulfil its obligations under the EC Treaty —
ance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section (OJ
1993 L 301, p. 13) — the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed                   the Court (Fifth Chamber) composed of: P. Jann, President of
of P.J.G Kapteyn, President of the Chamber, G. Hirsch,                     the First Chamber, acting as President of the Fifth Chamber,
G.F. Mancini (Rapporteur), H. Ragnemalm and R. Schintgen,                  J.C. Moitinho de Almeida (Rapporteur), C. Gulmann,
Judges; S. Alber, Advocate General; H.A. Rühl Principal                    D.A.O. Edward and L. Sevón, Judges; J. Mischo, Advocate
Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 22               General; L. Hewlett, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given
April 1999 in which it:                                                    a judgment on 22 April 1999, in which it: