CELEX: 62018CA0556
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-26 00:00:00
Title: Case C-556/18: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 26 September 2019 — Commission v Kingdom of Spain (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — European Union water policy — Directive 2000/60/EC — Article 13(1) and (7) and Article 15(1) — Failure to adopt, publish and communicate to the European Commission revised and updated river basin management plans for Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro (Spain) — Article 14 — Failure to inform and consult the public relating to the revision and the updating)

25.11.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 399/17
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 26 September 2019 — Commission v Kingdom of Spain
      (Case C-556/18) (1)
      
      (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - European Union water policy - Directive 2000/60/EC - Article 13(1) and (7) and Article 15(1) - Failure to adopt, publish and communicate to the European Commission revised and updated river basin management plans for Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro (Spain) - Article 14 - Failure to inform and consult the public relating to the revision and the updating)
      (2019/C 399/19)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: European Commission (represented by: Manhaeve and S. Pardo Quintillán, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: M. J. García-Valdecasas Dorrego, acting as Agent)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                  Rules that, by not having completed, within the prescribed time-limit, the information and consultation of the public relating to the revision and the updating of the river basin management plans for Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro, and by not having, within the prescribed time-limit, adopted, published and communicated to the European Commission the revision and updating of those management plans, the Kingdom of Spain failed to fulfil the obligations imposed on it in accordance with Article 13(7), read in conjunction with Article 13(1), and Article 14 and 15(1) of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy, as amended by Council Directive 2013/64/EU of 17 December 2013.
               
            
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                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 381, 22.10.2018.