CELEX: C2007/269/50
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-381/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'Etat (France) lodged on 8 August 2007 — Association Nationale pour la Protection des Eaux et Rivieres — TOS v Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development

10.11.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 269/29
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'Etat (France) lodged on 8 August 2007 — Association Nationale pour la Protection des Eaux et Rivieres — TOS v Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development
   (Case C-381/07)
   (2007/C 269/50)
   Language of the case: French
   Referring court
   Conseil d'Etat
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Association Nationale pour la Protection des Eaux et Rivieres — TOS
   
      Defendant: Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development
   Question referred
   May Article 6 of Directive 2006/11/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006 on pollution caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment of the Community (1) be interpreted as allowing the Member States, once programmes to reduce water pollution including environmental quality standards have been adopted under that article, to introduce a declaratory scheme, in respect of facilities regarded as being low-polluting in nature, with a reference to those standards and a right on the part of the administrative authority to object to the commencement of the operations or to impose limits on discharges specific to the facility concerned?
   
      (1)  OJ L 64 of 4.3.2006, p. 52.