CELEX: C2002/084/31
Language: en
Date: 2002-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) 24 January 2002 in Case C-35/00: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Environment — Waste — Directives 75/442/EEC, 91/689/EEC and 94/62/EC — Waste management plans)

C 84/20                  EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                           6.4.2002
the national legislation, even where a directive on the mutual              1.    Declares that, by not drawing up waste management plans
recognition of diplomas has been adopted for the profession concerned,            covering the whole of its territory and complying with all the
but where application of that directive does not result in automatic              provisions of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975
recognition of the applicant’s qualification or qualifications.                   on waste, as amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC of
                                                                                  18 March 1991, of Council Directive 91/689/EEC of
                                                                                  12 December 1991 on hazardous waste, and of Directive
                                                                                  94/62/EC of the European Parliament and Council of
(1) OJ C 102 of 8.4.2000.
                                                                                  20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste, and/or
                                                                                  by not informing the Commission thereof, the United Kingdom
                                                                                  of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its
                                                                                  obligations under Article 7 of Directive 75/442, as amended
                                                                                  by Directive 91/156, Article 6 of Directive 91/689 and,
                                                                                  leaving aside Gibraltar, under Article 14 of Directive 94/62.
                                                                            2.    Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
                  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                           Ireland to pay the costs.
                         (Second Chamber)                                   (1) OJ C 102 of 8.4.2000.
                          24 January 2002
in Case C-35/00: Commission of the European Communi-
ties v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
                              Ireland (1)
                                                                                             JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
(Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations —
Environment — Waste — Directives 75/442/EEC,
  91/689/EEC and 94/62/EC — Waste management plans)                                                   (Fifth Chamber)
                           (2002/C 84/31)                                                             15 January 2002
                    (Language of the case: English)                         in Case C-43/00 (Reference for a preliminary ruling
                                                                            from the Vestre Landsret): Andersen og Jensen ApS v
                                                                                                   Skatteministeriet (1)
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
                    in the European Court Reports)
                                                                            (Approximation of laws — Directive 90/434/EEC — Com-
                                                                            mon system of taxation applicable to mergers, divisions,
                                                                            transfers of assets and exchanges of shares — Transfer of
In Case C-35/00, Commission of the European Communities                               assets or of a branch of activity — Meaning)
(agents: R. B. Wainwright and L. Ström) v United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland (agent: R. Magrill, assisted
                                                                                                       (2002/C 84/32)
by D. Wyatt, QC): Application for a declaration that, by not
drawing up waste management plans complying with all the
provisions concerning waste of Council Directive 75/442/EEC                                     (Language of the case: Danish)
of 15 July 1975 on waste (OJ 1975 L 194, p. 39), as amended
by Council Directive 91/156/EEC of 18 March 1991 (OJ 1991
L 78, p. 32), of Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12 December                (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
1991 on hazardous waste (OJ 1991 L 377, p. 20), and of                                         in the European Court Reports)
European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of
20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste (OJ
1994 L 365, p. 10), and/or by not informing the Commission
thereof, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern                   In Case C-43/00: reference to the Court under Article 234 EC
Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 7 of             by the Vestre Landsret (Denmark) for a preliminary ruling in
Directive 75/442, as amended by Directive 91/156, Article 6                 the proceedings pending before that court between Andersen
of Directive 91/689 and Article 14 of Directive 94/62, the                  og Jensen ApS and Skatteministeriet on the interpretation of
Court (Second Chamber), composed of: N. Colneric, President                 Article 2(c) and (i) of Council Directive 90/434/EEC of 23 July
of the Chamber, R. Schintgen and V. Skouris (Rapporteur),                   1990 on the common system of taxation applicable to
Judges, Advocate General: A. Tizzano, Registrar: R. Grass, has              mergers, divisions, transfers of assets and exchanges of shares
given a judgment on 24 January 2002, in which it:                           concerning companies of different Member States (OJ 1990