CELEX: 62011CA0223
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-223/11: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 June 2012 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Environment — Directive 2000/60/EC — European Union water policy — River basin district management plans — Publication and notification to the Commission — None — Information and consultation of the public on the envisaged management plans — None)

18.8.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 250/7
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 June 2012 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-223/11) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Environment - Directive 2000/60/EC - European Union water policy - River basin district management plans - Publication and notification to the Commission - None - Information and consultation of the public on the envisaged management plans - None)
   2012/C 250/12
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: P. Guerra e Andrade and I. Chatzigiannis, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Portuguese Republic (represented by: L. Inez Fernandes, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Infringement of Articles 13(1), (2) and (6), 14(1) and 15(1) of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (OJ 2000 L 327, p. 1) — River basin district management plans — Publication — Information and consultation of the public — Commission not notified of copy management plans
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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               Rules that, the Portuguese Republic, by failing within the prescribed period:
               
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                           to publish the national and international river basin district management plans;
                        
                     
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                           to publish and to submit to the public, including users, for comment the envisaged river basin district management plans, and
                        
                     
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                           to send the European Commission the copies of those plans,
                        
                     has failed to fulfil its obligations under, respectively, Article 13(6) of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy, read in conjunction with Article 13(1) and (2), Article 14(1)(c) and Article 15(1) of that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 211, 16.7.2011.