CELEX: 62019CN0629
Language: en
Date: 2019-08-23 00:00:00
Title: Case C-629/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark (Austria) lodged on 23 August 2019 — Sappi Austria Produktions-GmbH & Co KG and Wasserverband ‘Region Gratkorn-Gratwein’

25.11.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 399/23
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark (Austria) lodged on 23 August 2019 — Sappi Austria Produktions-GmbH & Co KG and Wasserverband ‘Region Gratkorn-Gratwein’
      (Case C-629/19)
      (2019/C 399/27)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellants: Sappi Austria Produktions-GmbH & Co KG, Wasserverband ‘Region Gratkorn-Gratwein’
      
         Defendant authority: Landeshauptmann der Steiermark
      
         Questions referred
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Is sewage sludge to be regarded as waste in light of the exclusion under Article 2(2)(a) of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives (1) in conjunction with Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment and/or the Sewage Sludge Directive, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008? (2)
                  
               
            
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                  If the first question is answered in the affirmative:
                  
                               
                           
                           
                              Does Article 6(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives permit a substance to be classified as a by-product within the meaning of the concept of waste under EU law if, for process-related reasons, other substances which would otherwise have to be regarded as waste are added to that substance in a small proportion, if this has no effect on the composition of the substance as a whole and provides a significant benefit to the environment?
                           
                        
            
         (1)  OJ 2008 L 312, p. 3.
      
         (2)  OJ 2008 L 311, p. 1.