CELEX: 62015CA0320
Language: en
Date: 2017-09-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-320/15: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 14 September 2017 — European Commission v Hellenic Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 91/271/EEC — Urban waste water treatment — Article 4(1) and (3) — Secondary or equivalent treatment)

13.11.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 382/6
            
         Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 14 September 2017 — European Commission v Hellenic Republic
   (Case C-320/15) (1)
   
   ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 91/271/EEC - Urban waste water treatment - Article 4(1) and (3) - Secondary or equivalent treatment))
   (2017/C 382/04)
   Language of the case: Greek
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: G. Zavvos and E. Manhaeve, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Hellenic Republic (represented by: E. Skandalou, acting as Agent)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: C. Brodie and J. Kraehling, acting as Agents)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by not having ensured secondary or equivalent treatment of urban waste water from the agglomerations of Prosotsani, Doxato, Eleftheroupoli, Vagia and Galatista, whose population equivalent is between 2 000 and 10 000, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 4(1) of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water treatment as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission and the Hellenic Republic to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 328, 5.10.2015.