CELEX: 62010CA0365
Language: en
Date: 2011-03-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-365/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 24 March 2011 — European Commission v Republic of Slovenia (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Pollution control — Limit values for concentrations of PM10 in ambient air)

21.5.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 152/9
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 24 March 2011 — European Commission v Republic of Slovenia
   (Case C-365/10) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Pollution control - Limit values for concentrations of PM10 in ambient air)
   2011/C 152/15
   Language of the case: Slovenian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: D. Kukovec, acting as Agent)
   
      Defendant: Italian Republic (represented by: N. Pintar Gosenca, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Article 5(1) of Council Directive 1999/30/EC of 22 April 1999 relating to limit values for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter and lead in ambient air (OJ 1999 L 163, p. 41) and of Article 13(1) of Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (OJ 2008 L 152, p. 1) — Failure to take the measures necessary in order that concentrations of PM10 in ambient air should not exceed the limit values fixed
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, for the years 2005 to 2007, by exceeding the limit values for annual and daily concentrations of PM10 in ambient air, the Republic of Slovenia has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 5(1) of Council Directive 1999/30/EC of 22 April 1999 relating to limit values for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter and lead in ambient air;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Slovenia to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 288, 23.10.2010.