CELEX: 62010CA0515
Language: en
Date: 2011-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Case C-515/10: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 1 December 2011 — European Commission v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 1999/31/EC — Decision 2003/33/EC — National legislation — Landfill for inert waste — Acceptance of asbestos- cement waste)

4.2.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 32/11
            
         Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 1 December 2011 — European Commission v French Republic
   (Case C-515/10) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 1999/31/EC - Decision 2003/33/EC - National legislation - Landfill for inert waste - Acceptance of asbestos- cement waste)
   2012/C 32/19
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: G. Rozet and A. Marghelis, Agents, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues and S. Menez, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Incorrect transposition of Article 2(e), the first subparagraph of Article 3 and Article 6(d) of Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste (OJ 1999 L 182, p. 1) and the provisions of the Annex to Council Decision 2003/33/EC of 19 December 2002 establishing criteria and procedures for the acceptance of waste at landfills pursuant to Article 16 of and Annex II to Directive 1999/31/EC (OJ 2002 L 11, p. 27) — National legislation establishing a category of ‘inert and hazardous’ wastes, not in compliance with the directive — Landfill of asbestos-cement waste
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to ensure that asbestos-cement waste is treated in suitable landfills, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 2(e), the first subparagraph of Article 3 and Article 6(d) of Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste and the provisions of the Annex to Council Decision 2003/33/EC of 19 December 2002 establishing criteria and procedures for the acceptance of waste at landfills pursuant to Article 16 of and Annex II to Directive 1999/31.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 30, 29.1.2011.