CELEX: C2005/006/32
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-08 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 28 October 2004 in Case C-505/03 Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure to fulfil obligations — Quality of water intended for human consumption — Directive 80/778/EEC)

8.1.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/17
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 28 October 2004
   in Case C-505/03 Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (1)
   
   (Failure to fulfil obligations - Quality of water intended for human consumption - Directive 80/778/EEC)
   (2005/C 6/32)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-505/03 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: G. Valero Jordana and F. Simonetti) v French Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues and C. Mercier) – action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 28 November 2003 – the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, acting for the President of the Fourth Chamber, E. Juhász (Rapporteur) and M. Ilešič, Judges; M. Poiares Maduro, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 28 October 2004, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to comply with the requirements of Council Directive 80/778/EEC of 15 July 1980 relating to the quality of water intended for human consumption with regard to the nitrate content of water intended for human consumption in Brittany, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7(6) and Annex I of that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 21 of 24.1.2004.