CELEX: C2004/228/15
Language: en
Date: 2004-09-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 15 July 2004 in Case C-424/02: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 75/439/EEC — Disposal of waste oils — Priority to be given to the processing of waste oils by regeneration)

11.9.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 228/8
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (First Chamber)
   of 15 July 2004
   in Case C-424/02: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 75/439/EEC - Disposal of waste oils - Priority to be given to the processing of waste oils by regeneration)
   (2004/C 228/15)
   Language of the case: English
   In Case C-424/02: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: X. Lewis and M. Konstantinidis) v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Agent: M. Bethell, assisted by M. Demetriou) — application for a declaration that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations or administrative provisions necessary to comply with Article 3(1) of Council Directive 75/439/EEC of 16 June 1975 on the disposal of waste oils (OJ 1975 L 194, p. 23), as amended by Directive 87/101/EEC of 22 December 1986 (OJ 1987 L 42, p. 43), requiring Member States to take the measures necessary to give priority to the processing of waste oils by regeneration or, in any event, by failing to notify such provisions to the Commission, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive — the Court (First Chamber), composed of: P. Jann (President of the Chamber), A. Rosas, S. von Bahr, R. Silva de Lapuerta (Rapporteur) and K. Lenaerts, Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate General; L. Hewlett, Registrar, gave a judgment on 15 July 2004, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to take the measures necessary under Article 3(1) of Council Directive 75/439/EEC of 16 June 1975 on the disposal of waste oils, as amended by Council Directive 87/101/EEC of 22 December 1986, to give priority to the processing of waste oils by regeneration, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 19 of 25.1.2003.