CELEX: E2018J0006
Language: en
Date: 2019-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 14 May 2019 in Case E-6/18 — EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland (Failure by an EFTA State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to implement — Directive 2014/52/EU)

19.9.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 315/7
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
      of 14 May 2019
      in Case E-6/18
      EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland
      
         (Failure by an EFTA State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to implement — Directive 2014/52/EU)
      
      (2019/C 315/08)
      In Case E-6/18, EFTA Surveillance Authority v Iceland — APPLICATION for a declaration that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act referred to at point 1a of Annex XX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 amending Directive 2011/92/EU on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment), as adapted by Protocol 1, and under Article 7 of the Agreement, by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed, or in any event, by failing to inform the EFTA Surveillance Authority thereof, the Court, composed of Páll Hreinsson, President, Per Christiansen (Judge-Rapporteur) and Bernd Hammermann, Judges, gave judgment on 14 May 2019, the operative part of which is as follows:
      The Court hereby:
      
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                  Declares that Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Act referred to at point 1a of Annex XX to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 amending Directive 2011/92/EU on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment), as adapted by Protocol 1 to the Agreement, and under Article 7 of the Agreement, by failing to adopt the measures necessary to implement the Act within the time prescribed.
               
            
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                  Orders Iceland to bear the costs of the proceedings.