CELEX: 62007CA0530
Language: en
Date: 2009-05-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-530/07: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 7 May 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 91/271/EEC — Pollution and nuisance — Urban waste water treatment — Articles 3 and 4)

4.7.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 153/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 7 May 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic
   (Case C-530/07) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 91/271/EEC - Pollution and nuisance - Urban waste water treatment - Articles 3 and 4)
   2009/C 153/16
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: S. Pardo Quintillán and G. Braga da Cruz, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Portuguese Republic (represented by: L. Inez Fernandes and M. J. Lois, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt in the prescribed period the measures necessary to comply with Art. 3 and 4 of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water treatment (OJ 1991 L 135, p. 40)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to provide, in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water treatment, the agglomerations of Bacia do Rio Uima (Fiães S. Jorge), Costa de Aveiro, Covilhã, Espinho/Feira, Ponta Delgada, Póvoa de Varzim/Vila do Conde and Santa Cita with collection systems, and by failing to subject to secondary treatment or an equivalent treatment, in accordance with Article 4 of that directive, the urban waste water from the agglomerations of Alverca, Bacio do Rio Uima (Fiães S. Jorge), Carvoeiro, Costa de Aveiro, Costa Oeste, Covilhã, Lisbon, Matosinhos, Milfontes, Nazaré/Famalicão, Ponta Delgada, Póvoa de Varzim/Vila do Conde, Santa Cita, Vila Franca de Xira and Vila Real de Santo António, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 3 and 4 of that directive.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 37, 9.2.2008.