CELEX: 62016CA0153
Language: en
Date: 2017-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-153/16: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 6 April 2017 — European Commission v Republic of Slovenia (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Inappropriate storage of a large number of used tyres — Landfill not complying with the requirements fixed by Directives 2008/98/EC and 1999/31/EC — Persistent and continuous danger to the environment and human health)

29.5.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 168/16
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 6 April 2017 — European Commission v Republic of Slovenia
   (Case C-153/16) (1)
   
   ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Inappropriate storage of a large number of used tyres - Landfill not complying with the requirements fixed by Directives 2008/98/EC and 1999/31/EC - Persistent and continuous danger to the environment and human health))
   (2017/C 168/20)
   Language of the case: Slovenian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: E. Sanfrutos Cano and D. Kukovec, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Slovenia (represented by: A. Grum, acting as Agent)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Declares that, by accepting in a gravel mine situated on the territory of the municipality of Lovrenc na Dravskem polju (Slovenia) a persistent and continuous danger to the environment and human health, as a result of the inappropriate storage of large quantities of disused tyres, of the mixture of the latter with other waste and the landfill thereof in infringement of the requirements of Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste, the Republic of Slovenia failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 5(3)(d) of that directive, as well as Articles 12 and 13 and Article 36(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives.
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder.
            
         
               3)
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Slovenia to bear its own costs and to pay two0thirds of those of the European Commission.
            
         
               4)
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear one-third of its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 222, 20.6.2016.