CELEX: 62009CA0209
Language: en
Date: 2010-02-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-209/09: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 25 February 2010 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein hallinto-oikeus — Finland) — Lahti Energia Oy (Directive 2000/76/EC — Incineration of waste — Incineration plant — Co-incineration plant — Complex comprising a gas plant and a power plant — Incineration in the power plant of non-purified gas produced from the thermal treatment of waste in the gas plant)

17.4.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 100/9
            
         Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 25 February 2010 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein hallinto-oikeus — Finland) — Lahti Energia Oy
   (Case C-209/09) (1)
   
   (Directive 2000/76/EC - Incineration of waste - Incineration plant - Co-incineration plant - Complex comprising a gas plant and a power plant - Incineration in the power plant of non-purified gas produced from the thermal treatment of waste in the gas plant)
   2010/C 100/12
   Language of the case: Finnish
   
      Referring court
   
   Korkein hallinto-oikeus
   
      Party to the main proceedings
   
   Lahti Energia Oy
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Korkein hallinto-oikeus — Interpretation of Article 3 of Directive 2000/76/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 December 2000 on the incineration of waste (OJ 2000 L 332, p. 91) — Complex consisting of a plant producing gas from waste and a power plant whose steam boiler burns the gas produced from the thermal treatment of waste in the gas plant — Combustion in the steam boiler of the power plant of non-purified instead of purified gas
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   A power plant which uses as an additional fuel, in substitution for fossil fuels used for the most part in its production activities, gas obtained in a gas plant following thermal treatment of waste is to be regarded, jointly with that gas plant, as a ‘co-incineration plant’ within the meaning of Article 3(5) of Directive 2000/76/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 December 2000 on the incineration of waste when the gas in question has not been purified within the gas plant.
   
      (1)  OJ C 193, 15.8.2009.