CELEX: C2007/095/66
Language: en
Date: 2007-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-147/07: Action brought on 13 March 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v French Republic

28.4.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 95/34
            
         Action brought on 13 March 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v French Republic
   (Case C-147/07)
   (2007/C 95/66)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: S. Pardo Quintillán, J. Hottiaux, J.-B. Laignelot, Agents)
   
      Defendant: French Republic
   Form of order sought
   
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               declare that, by failing to take all 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 (1), the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               order the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The quality of water intended for human consumption in France does not comply with the provisions of Directive 98/83 in so far as the thresholds laid down in that directive are regularly exceeded, as regards nitrates and pesticides, in the Deux-Sèvres, Charente-Maritime and Vendée Departments.
   
      (1)  OJ 1998 L 330, p. 32.