CELEX: 62019CA0015
Language: en
Date: 2020-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-15/19: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 14 May 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione — Italy) — AMA — Azienda Municipale Ambiente SpA v Consorzio Laziale Rifiuti — Co.La.Ri. (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Waste — Directive 1999/31/EC — Existing landfill sites — Period of responsibility for after-care of the landfill following closure — Extension — Costs of the landfill of waste — Polluter pays principle — Temporal scope of the directive)

20.7.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 240/16
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 14 May 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione — Italy) — AMA — Azienda Municipale Ambiente SpA v Consorzio Laziale Rifiuti — Co.La.Ri.
      (Case C-15/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Environment - Waste - Directive 1999/31/EC - Existing landfill sites - Period of responsibility for after-care of the landfill following closure - Extension - Costs of the landfill of waste - Polluter pays principle - Temporal scope of the directive)
      (2020/C 240/20)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Referring court
      
      Corte suprema di cassazione
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant: AMA — Azienda Municipale Ambiente SpA
      
         Respondent: Consorzio Laziale Rifiuti — Co.La.Ri.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Articles 10 and 14 of Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste must be interpreted as not precluding the interpretation of a provision of national law to the effect that a landfill site in operation at the date of transposition of that directive must be subject to the obligations arising under that directive, in particular the obligation to extend the after-care period following the closure of the landfill, without it being necessary to make a distinction according to the date of storage of the waste or to provide for measures to limit the financial impact of that extension in respect of the holder of the waste.
      
         (1)  OJ C 164, 13.5.2019.