CELEX: C2004/300/29
Language: en
Date: 2004-12-04 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 12 October 2004 in Case C-431/02: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Hazardous waste — Failure of a State to fulfil obligations — Directive 91/689/EEC)

4.12.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 300/15
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Third Chamber)
   of 12 October 2004
   in Case C-431/02: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1)
   
   (Hazardous waste - Failure of a State to fulfil obligations - Directive 91/689/EEC)
   (2004/C 300/29)
   Language of the case: English
   In Case C-431/02: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: X. Lewis and M. Konstantinidis) v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Agents: P. Ormond and K. Manji, assisted by M. Demetriou, Barrister) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 28 November 2004 Ä the Court (Third Chamber), composed of: A. Rosas, President of the Chamber, A. Borg Barthet, F. Macken (Rapporteur), S. von Bahr, and U. Lõhmus, Judges; Advocate General: P. Léger, Registrar: R. Grass, has given a judgment on 12 October 2004, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to adopt all the measures necessary to comply with its obligations under Articles 1(4) and (5), 2(1), (2) and (4), 3(1) to (4), 4(1) to (3) and 5(2) of Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12 December 1991 on hazardous waste (OJ 1991 L 377, p. 20), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that Directive and under the EC Treaty;
            
         
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               Dismisses the remainder of the action;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Commission of the European Communities to bear one-fifth of the costs;
            
         
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               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear four-fifths of the costs.
            
         
      (1)   OJ C 19 of 25.1.2003.