CELEX: 62007CA0147
Language: en
Date: 2008-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Case C-147/07: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 31 January 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directives 80/778/EEC and 98/83/EC — Quality of water intended for human consumption — Maximum concentrations of nitrates and pesticides — Incorrect application)

29.3.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 79/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 31 January 2008 — Commission of the European Communities v French Republic
   (Case C-147/07) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directives 80/778/EEC and 98/83/EC - Quality of water intended for human consumption - Maximum concentrations of nitrates and pesticides - Incorrect application)
   (2008/C 79/14)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: S. Pardo Quintillán, J. Hottiaux and J.-B. Laignelot, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues and S. Gasri, acting as Agents)
   Re:
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the prescribed period, the measures necessary to comply with Article 4 of Council Directive 98/83/EC of 3 November 1998 on the quality of water intended for human consumption (OJ 1998 L 330, p. 32) — Failure, in certain départements, to remain within the chemical parameters laid down in Annex I, Part B to Directive 98/83 — Nitrates and pesticides
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to take the measures necessary to comply with Article 4 of Council Directive 98/83/EC of 3 November 1998 on the quality of water intended for human consumption, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 95, 28.4.2007.