CELEX: C2006/060/17
Language: en
Date: 2006-03-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of  12 January 2006  in Case C-37/05: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 85/337/EEC, as amended by Directive 97/11/EC — Assessment of the effects of projects on the environment — Consents granted without assessment)

11.3.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 60/9
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 12 January 2006
   in Case C-37/05: Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 85/337/EEC, as amended by Directive 97/11/EC - Assessment of the effects of projects on the environment - Consents granted without assessment)
   (2006/C 60/17)
   Language of the case: English
   In Case C-37/05, Commission of the European Communities (Agent: M. van Beek, assisted by F. Louis and A. Capobianco, avocats) v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Agent: C. White) — Action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 31 January 2005 — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of J. Makarczyk (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta and P. Kūris, Judges; M. Poiares Maduro, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 12 January 2006, in which it:
   
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               Declares that, in failing to correctly transpose Articles 2(1) and 4 of Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC of 3 March 1997, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
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               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 82, 2.4.2005.