CELEX: E2014J0005
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-24 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 24 September 2014 in Case E-5/14 — EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland (Failure by an EEA State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives)

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 131/8
            
         JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   of 24 September 2014
   in Case E-5/14
   EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland
   (Failure by an EEA State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives)
   (2015/C 131/08)
   In Case E-5/14, 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, the measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 32ff of Chapter V of Annex XX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘EEA Agreement’), namely Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives, as adapted to the EEA Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 40 of the Directive and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement, the Court, composed of Carl Baudenbacher, President, Per Christiansen and Páll Hreinsson (Judge-Rapporteur), Judges, gave judgment on 24 September 2014, the operative part of which is as follows:
   The Court hereby:
   
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               Declares that by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act referred to at point 32ff of Chapter V of Annex XX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives), as adapted to the EEA Agreement by way of Protocol 1 thereto, Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 40 of that Act and under Article 7 of the EEA Agreement.
            
         
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               Orders Iceland to bear the costs of the proceedings.