CELEX: C2006/331/29
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-452/05: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 23 November 2006 — Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Pollution and nuisance — Urban waste-water treatment)

30.12.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 331/17
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 23 November 2006 — Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
   (Case C-452/05) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Pollution and nuisance - Urban waste-water treatment)
   (2006/C 331/29)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: S. Pardo Quintillán and F. Simonetti, Agents, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (represented by: S. Schreiner, Agent)
   Re:
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Incorrect application of Article 5(4) of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment (OJ 1991 L 135, p. 40)
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by being unable to prove that the minimum percentage of reduction of the overall load entering all water-treatment plants is at least 75 % for total nitrogen, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 5(4) of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 48 of 25.2.2006.