CELEX: C2005/019/12
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 2 December 2004 in Case C-48/04: Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic (Failure to fulfil obligations — Directive 2000/76/EC — Incineration of waste — Failure to transpose)

22.1.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 19/7
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fourth Chamber)
   of 2 December 2004
   in Case C-48/04: Commission of the European Communities v Portuguese Republic (1)
   
   (Failure to fulfil obligations - Directive 2000/76/EC - Incineration of waste - Failure to transpose)
   (2005/C 19/12)
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   In Case C-48/04: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: A. Caeiros and M. Konstantinidis) v Portuguese Republic (Agents: L. Fernandes and F. Andrade) – ACTION under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 6 February 2004 – the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: K. Lenaerts, President of Chamber, N. Colneric and E. Levits (Rapporteur), Judges; F.G. Jacobs, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 2 December 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative measures necessary to comply with Directive 2000/76/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 December 2000 on the incineration of waste, the Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive, in particular those under Article 21(1) thereof;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Portuguese Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 71, 20.3.2004.