CELEX: 62006CA0411
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-411/06: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 8 September 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v European Parliament, Council of the European Union (Action for annulment — Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 — Shipments of waste — Choice of legal basis — Articles 133 EC and 175(1) EC)

7.11.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 267/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 8 September 2009 — Commission of the European Communities v European Parliament, Council of the European Union
   (Case C-411/06) (1)
   
   (Action for annulment - Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 - Shipments of waste - Choice of legal basis - Articles 133 EC and 175(1) EC)
   2009/C 267/14
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: G. Valero Jordana, M. Huttunen and M. Konstantinidis, Agents)
   
      Defendants: European Parliament (represented by: I. Anagnostopoulou and U. Rösslein, Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Moore and K. Michoel, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendants: French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues, A. Adam and G. Le Bras, Agents), Republic of Austria (represented by: E. Riedl, Agent), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: E. Jenkinson, E. O’Neil and S. Behzadi-Spencer, Agents, A. Dashwood, Barrister)
   
      Re:
   
   Annulment of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 on shipments of waste (OJ 2006 L 190, p. 1) — Choice of legal basis — Act pursuing a dual purpose or having a dual component and requiring cumulative legal bases (Art. 175(1) EC and Art. 133 EC)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Commission of the European Communities to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic, the Republic of Austria and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 294, 02.12.2006.