CELEX: 62012CN0193
Language: en
Date: 2012-04-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-193/12: Action brought on 25 April 2012 — European Commission v French Republic

21.7.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/6
            
         Action brought on 25 April 2012 — European Commission v French Republic
   (Case C-193/12)
   2012/C 217/12
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: B. Simon and J. Hottiaux, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: French Republic
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Declare that, by failing to designate as vulnerable zones a number of zones characterised by the presence of surface and groundwater bodies which are, or may be, affected by excessive nitrate content and/or eutrophication, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 3(1) and (4) of and Annex I to Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources, (1)
               
            
         
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               order the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The Commission complains that when the defendant carried out a revision of the vulnerable zones in 2007, its designation of those zones was not comprehensive, as it ought to have been under Article 3(1) and (4) of and Annex I to Directive 91/676/EEC.
   The Commission complains in particular that the French authorities failed to designate 10 additional vulnerable zones and did not provide any specific information that might justify that omission.
   
      (1)  OJ 1991 L 375, p. 1.