CELEX: C2005/281/04
Language: en
Date: 2005-11-12 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 2 June 2005 in Case C-282/02: Commission of the European Communities v Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Water pollution — Directive 76/464/EEC)

12.11.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 281/2
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   of 2 June 2005
   in Case C-282/02: Commission of the European Communities v Ireland (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Water pollution - Directive 76/464/EEC)
   (2005/C 281/04)
   Language of the case: English
   In Case C-282/02, action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 31 July 2002, Commission of the European Communities (Agent: M. Shotter) v Ireland (Agent: D.J. O'Hagan, assisted by A.M. Collins, lawyer) the Court (Second Chamber), composed of C.W.A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta, C. Gulmann, J. Makarczyk and P. Kūris, Judges; M. Poiares Maduro, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 2 June 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, in failing to take all of the measures necessary to ensure a correct transposition and application of Council Directive 76/464/EEC of 4 May 1976 on pollution caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment of the Community, Ireland has failed to comply with its obligations under Article 7 of that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the remainder of the action;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 261 of 26.10.2002.