CELEX: C2007/056/16
Language: en
Date: 2007-03-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-405/05: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 25 January 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 91/271/EEC — Pollution and nuisance — Treatment of urban waste water — Lack of measures to ensure the adequate treatment of urban waste water from a number of agglomerations)

10.3.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 56/10
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 25 January 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
   (Case C-405/05) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 91/271/EEC - Pollution and nuisance - Treatment of urban waste water - Lack of measures to ensure the adequate treatment of urban waste water from a number of agglomerations)
   (2007/C 56/16)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: S. Pardo Quintillán, X. Lewis and H. van Vliet, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: C. White, acting as Agent)
   Re:
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Article 4(1) and (3) of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment (OJ 1991 L 135, p. 40) — Failure to ensure adequate treatment of urban waste water from a number of agglomerations
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to take the measures necessary to ensure that adequate treatment was provided for urban waste waters from the agglomerations of Bangor, Brighton, Broadstairs, Carrickfergus, Coleraine, Donaghadee, Larne, Lerwick, Londonderry, Margate, Newtownabbey, Omagh and Portrush by 31 December 2000 at the latest, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 4(1) and (3) of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 48, 25.2.2006.