CELEX: 62007CA0516
Language: en
Date: 2009-05-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-516/07: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 7 May 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (Failure to fulfil obligations — Directive 2000/60/EC — Framework for Community action in the field of water policy — Designation of competent authorities for hydrographic districts)

4.7.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 153/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 7 May 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-516/07) (1)
   
   (Failure to fulfil obligations - Directive 2000/60/EC - Framework for Community action in the field of water policy - Designation of competent authorities for hydrographic districts)
   2009/C 153/15
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: S. Pardo Quintillán, acting as Agent)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: B. Plaza Cruz, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, the measures necessary to comply with Article 3(2), (7) and (8) 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)
   
      Operative part
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to designate the competent authorities for the application of the rules 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, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 3(2) and (7) of that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 37, 9.2.2008.