CELEX: C2005/045/10
Language: en
Date: 2005-02-19 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 16 December 2004 in Case C-62/03: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Waste — Directives 75/442/EEC and 91/156/EEC — Transposition)

19.2.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 45/5
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Third Chamber)
   of 16 December 2004
   in Case C-62/03: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
       (1)
   
   (Waste - Directives 75/442/EEC and 91/156/EEC - Transposition)
   (2005/C 45/10)
   Language of the case: English
   In Case C-62/03, action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 14 February 2003, between the Commission of the European Communities (Agents: X. Lewis and M. Konstantinidis) and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Agents: K. Manji and by D. Wyatt QC) – the Court (Third Chamber), composed of: A. Rosas, President of the Chamber, A. Borg Barthet, J. P. Puissochet (Rapporteur), J. Malenovský and U. Lõhmus, Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate General; L. Hewlett, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 16 December 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to take the measures necessary to comply with the obligations under Articles 1(a), (e) and (f), 2(1)(b), 3, 4, 5, 7(1), 8, 12, 13 and 14 of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 on waste, as amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC of 18 March 1991 and, most recently, by Commission Decision 96/350/EC of 24 May 1996, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 101 of 26.4.2003.