CELEX: 62010CA0458
Language: en
Date: 2011-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-458/10: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 9 June 2011 — European Commission v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 98/83/EC — Water intended for human consumption — Incomplete and incorrect transposition)

30.7.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 226/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 9 June 2011 — European Commission v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
   (Case C-458/10) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 98/83/EC - Water intended for human consumption - Incomplete and incorrect transposition)
   2011/C 226/14
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: S. Pardo Quintillán and O. Beynet, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (represented by: C. Schiltz, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Incomplete and incorrect transposition of Article 9(3)(b), (c) and (e) of Council Directive 98/83/EC of 3 November 1998 on the quality of water intended for human consumption (OJ L 330, p. 32) — Distribution of drinking water not complying with the required parametric values — Derogations scheme
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to transpose completely and correctly Article 9(3)(b), (c) and (e) of Council Directive of 3 November 1998 on the quality of water intended for human consumption, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 346, 18.12.2010.