CELEX: C1999/204/05
Language: en
Date: 1999-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 22 April 1999 in Case C-340/96: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irland (Failure to fulfil obligations - Directive 80/778/EEC - Water intended for human consumption - Rules designed to ensure implementation of water-quality standards)

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:
 ---pagebreak--- C 204/4                    EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                          17.7.1999
1. Declares that, by accepting undertakings from water companies              1. Dismisses the appeal;
     for the purpose of ensuring that water complies with the
     requirements of Council Directive 80/778/EEC of 15 July 1980             2. Orders Kernkraftwerke Lippe-Ems GmbH to pay the costs.
     relating to the quality of water intended for human consumption,
     without the conditions governing the acceptance of such under-
     takings being specified in the Water Industry Act 1991, the              (1) OJ C 212 of 12.7.1997.
     United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has
     failed to fulfil its obligations under the EC Treaty and under that
     directive;
2. Dismisses the remainder of the application;
3. Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern                                      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
     Ireland to pay the costs.
                                                                                                          (Sixth Chamber)
(1) OJ C 370 of 7.12.1996.
                                                                                                          of 22 April 1999
                                                                              in Case C-272/97: Commission of the European Communi-
                                                                                           ties v Federal Republic of Germany(1)
                                                                              (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations —
                   JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                      Reasoned opinion — Principle of collegiality — Directive
                                                                              90/605/EEC amending the scope of Directives 78/660/EEC
                                                                              and 83/349/EEC — Annual accounts and consolidated
                              (First Chamber)                                                                  accounts)
                             of 22 April 1999                                                             (1999/C 204/07)
in Case C-161/97 P: Kernkraftwerke Lippe-Ems GmbH v
        Commission of the European Communities (1)                                                 (Language of the case: German)
(Euratom Treaty — Action for annulment and action for                         (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
damages — Conclusion of a contract for the supply of                                               in the European Court Reports)
uranium — Simplified procedure — Powers of the Agency
— Time-limit for conclusion of the contract — Legal obstacle
to conclusion — Diversification policy — Origin of the                        In Case C-272/97: Commission of the European Communities
                 uranium — Market-related prices)                             (Agents: António Caeiro and Jürgen Grunwald) v Federal
                                                                              Republic of Germany (Agents: Ernst Röder and Alfred Dittrich)
                                                                              — application for a declaration that, by failing to implement
                             (1999/C 204/06)                                  within the prescribed period all measures necessary to comply
                                                                              with Council Directive 90/605/EEC of 8 November 1990
                                                                              amending Directive 78/660/EEC on annual accounts and
                      (Language of the case: German)                          Directive 83/349/EEC on consolidated accounts as regards the
                                                                              scope of those Directives (OJ 1990 L 317, p. 60), the Federal
                                                                              Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published        the EC Treaty — the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of
                      in the European Court Reports)                          P.J.G. Kapteyn, President of the Chamber, G. Hirsch, G.F. Man-
                                                                              cini, H. Ragnemalm (Rapporteur) and R. Schintgen, Judges;
In Case C-161/97 P: Kernkraftwerke Lippe-Ems GmbH, a                          G. Cosmas, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a
company incorporated under German law, established in                         judgment on 22 April 1999, in which it:
Lingen, Germany, represented by Bernd Kunth, Gerhard
Wiedemann and Helmut Nicolaus, Rechtsanwälte, Düsseldorf,                     1. Declares that, by failing to adopt within the prescribed period all
with an address for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of                      the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to
Alex Bonn, 22 Côte d’Eich — appeal against the judgment                           comply with Council Directive 90/605/EEC of 8 November
of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber, Extended                           1990 amending Directive 78/660/EEC on annual accounts and
Composition) of 25 February 1997 in Joined Cases T-149/94                         Directive 83/349/EEC on consolidated accounts as regards the
and T-181/94 Kernkraftwerke Lippe-Ems v Commission                                scope of those Directives, the Federal Republic of Germany has
[1997] ECR II-161, seeking to have that judgment set aside,                       failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
the other party to the proceedings being Commission of the
European Communities (Agent: Jürgen Grunwald) — the Court                     2. Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.
(First Chamber), composed of: P. Jann, President of the
Chamber, D.A.O. Edward and M. Wathelet (Rapporteur),                          (1) OJ C 271 of 6.9.1997.
Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; H.A. Rühl, Principal
Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on
22 April 1999, in which it: