CELEX: 62016CN0153
Language: en
Date: 2016-03-15 00:00:00
Title: Case C-153/16: Action brought on 15 March 2016 — European Commission v Republic of Slovenia

20.6.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 222/3
            
         Action brought on 15 March 2016 — European Commission v Republic of Slovenia
   (Case C-153/16)
   (2016/C 222/04)
   Language of the case: Slovenian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: D. Kukovec and E. Sanfrutos Cano, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Republic of Slovenia
   
      Form of order sought by the applicant
   
   The Commission claims that the Court should:
   
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               declare that, by allowing an ongoing persistent situation of environmental and health insecurity, through the unsuitable storage of substantial quantities of used tyres together with other waste, including hazardous waste, and through the disposal thereof contrary to the requirements of the Landfill Directive, the Republic of Slovenia has infringed Article 12 (Disposal), Article 13 as regards waste management which takes into account the protection of human health and the environment, and Article 36(1) (Enforcement and penalties) of the Waste Framework Directive, as well as Article 5(3)(d) of the Landfill Directive;
            
         
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               order the Republic of Slovenia to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The Republic of Slovenia has allowed an ongoing persistent situation of environmental and health insecurity, through the unsuitable storage of substantial quantities of used tyres together with other waste, including hazardous waste, and through the disposal thereof contrary to the requirements of, first, the Landfill Directive and, second, the Waste Framework Directive.