CELEX: C2006/060/19
Language: en
Date: 2006-03-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of  12 January 2006  in Case C-85/05: Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2000/60/EC — Community action in the field of water policy — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period )

11.3.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 60/10
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Sixth Chamber)
   of 12 January 2006
   in Case C-85/05: Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 2000/60/EC - Community action in the field of water policy - Failure to transpose within the prescribed period )
   (2006/C 60/19)
   Language of the case: Italian
   In Case C-85/05 Commission of the European Communities (Agent: S. Pardo Quintillán and D. Recchia) v Italian Republic (Agent: I.M. Braguglia and G. Fiengo, avvocato dello Stato) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 18 February 2005 — the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of J. Malenovský, President of the Chamber, U. Lõhmus and A. Ó Caoimh (Rapporteur), Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 12 January 2006, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the prescribed period, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy, the Italian Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the Italian Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 93 of 16.4.2005