CELEX: E2013J0018
Language: en
Date: 2013-12-06 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 6 December 2013 in Case E-18/13 — EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland (Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2001/81/EC — Failure to implement)

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               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 88/17
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   of 6 December 2013
   in Case E-18/13
   EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland
   (Failure by a Contracting Party to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2001/81/EC — Failure to implement)
   2014/C 88/14
   In Case E-18/13, EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland — APPLICATION for a declaration that by failing, within the time prescribed to adopt or to notify the EFTA Surveillance Authority forthwith of all measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 21 ar of Annex XX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, that is Directive 2001/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2001 on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants, as adapted to the Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act and under Article 7 EEA, the Court, composed of Carl Baudenbacher, President, Per Christiansen (Judge-Rapporteur) and Páll Hreinsson, Judges, gave judgment on 6 December 2013, the operative part of which is as follows:
   The Court hereby:
   
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               Declares that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act referred to at point 21ar of Annex XX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2001/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2001 on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants), as adapted to the Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, and under Article 7 of the Agreement, by failing to adopt all the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.
            
         
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               Orders Iceland to bear the costs of the proceedings.