CELEX: C2005/143/15
Language: en
Date: 2005-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 14 April 2005 in Case C-146/04: Commission of the European Communities against the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directives 2000/69/EC and 2001/81/EC — Atmospheric pollutants — Failure to transpose)

11.6.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 143/12
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Sixth Chamber)
   of 14 April 2005
   in Case C-146/04: Commission of the European Communities against the Kingdom of the Netherlands (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directives 2000/69/EC and 2001/81/EC - Atmospheric pollutants - Failure to transpose)
   (2005/C 143/15)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   In Case C-146/04, action for failure to fulfil obligations brought on 19 March 2004 under Article 226 EC, Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M. van Beel and G. Valero Jordana) against Kingdom of the Netherlands (agents: H.G. Sevenster and J. van Bakel), the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of A. Borg Barthet (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, S. von Bahr and J. Malenkovský, Judges, Advocate General: P. Léger, Registrar: R. Grass, has given a judgment on 14 April 2005 in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that by failing to adopt the necessary laws, regulations and administrative measures necessary to comply with Directive 2000/69/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 November 2000 relating to limit values for benzene and carbon monoxide in ambient air and Directive 2001/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2001 on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has failed to fulfil its obligations under those directives;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Kingdom of the Netherlands to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 106 of 30.4.2004.