CELEX: C2003/044/20
Language: en
Date: 2003-02-22 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 16 January 2003 in Case C-122/02: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to transpose Directive 98/83/EC)

22.2.2003                EN                          Official Journal of the European Union                                                C 44/11
2.    Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern                                     ORDER OF THE COURT
      Ireland to pay the costs.
                                                                                                       (Sixth Chamber)
( 1) OJ C 109 of 4.5.2002.
                                                                                                    of 21 November 2002
                                                                             in Case C-360/01: Italian Republic v Commission of the
                                                                             European Communities and Council of the European
                                                                                                            Union ( 1)
                  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                           (First Chamber)                                   (Sugar — Pricing system — Marketing year 2001/2002 —
                                                                             Regionalisation — Non-deficit areas — Classification of
                                                                             Italy — Validity of Regulations (EC) Nos 1263/2001 and
                         of 16 January 2003                                  1260/2001 — Action for annulment — Manifestly inadmis-
                                                                                                          sible in part)
in Case C-122/02: Commission of the European Communi-
                  ties v Kingdom of Belgium (1)
                                                                                                        (2003/C 44/21)
(Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Failure
                to transpose Directive 98/83/EC)                                                  (Language of the case: Italian)
                           (2003/C 44/20)
                                                                             (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
                                                                                                 in the European Court Reports)
                     (Language of the case: French)
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
                    in the European Court Reports)
                                                                             In Case C-360/01, Italian Republic (Agent: U. Leanza, and G de
                                                                             Bellis) v Commission of the European Communities (Agent: C.
                                                                             Cattabriga) and Council of the European Union (Agent:
In Case C-122/02, Commission of the European Communities                     F. P. Ruggeri Laderchi) — application for the annulment of
(Agents: G. Valero Jordana and J. Adda) v Kingdom of Belgium                 Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1263/2001 fixing
(Agent: A. Snoecx): Application for a declaration that, by                   the derived intervention prices for white sugar for the 2001/
failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative                02 marketing year (OJ 2001 L 178, p. 60), in so far as it fails
provisions necessary to comply fully with Council Directive                  to fix derived intervention prices for white sugar for all the
98/83/EC of 3 November 1998 on the quality of water                          areas of Italy and, in so far as necessary, the annulment of
intended for human consumption (OJ 1998 L 330, p. 32) or,                    Article 2(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 of
at any rate, by failing fully to inform the Commission thereof,              19 June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in
the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations                  the sugar sector (OJ 2001 L 178, p. 1) — the Court
under that directive, the Court (First Chamber), composed of:                (Sixth Chamber), composed of: J.-P. Puissochet (President of
M. Wathelet, President of the Chamber, P. Jann and A. Rosas                  Chamber), R. Schintgen, C. Gulmann, V. Skouris and N. Col-
(Rapporteur), Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General;                       neric (Rapporteur), Judges; J. Mischo, Advocate General;
R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 16 January 2003,                R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 21 November 2002,
in which it:                                                                 the operative part of which is as follows:
1.    Declares that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and       1.    The application is dismissed as manifestly inadmissible inas-
      administrative provisions necessary to comply fully with Council             much as it is directed against the Council.
      Directive 98/83/EC of 3 November 1998 on the quality of
      water intended for human consumption, the Kingdom of
      Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;     2.    The Italian Republic is ordered to pay the costs relating to that
                                                                                   part of the application.
2.    Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
                                                                             (1 ) OJ C 331 of 24.11.2001.
( 1) OJ C 131 of 1.6.2002.