CELEX: 62015CA0314
Language: en
Date: 2016-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Case C-314/15: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 23 November 2016 — European Commission v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 91/271/EEC — Treatment of urban waste water — Article 4(1) and (3) — Secondary treatment or equivalent treatment)

30.1.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 30/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 23 November 2016 — European Commission v French Republic
   (Case C-314/15) (1)
   
   ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 91/271/EEC - Treatment of urban waste water - Article 4(1) and (3) - Secondary treatment or equivalent treatment))
   (2017/C 030/07)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: O. Beynet and E. Manhaeve, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: French Republic (represented by: S. Ghiandoni, A. Daly and D. Colas)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to ensure secondary treatment or equivalent treatment for urban waste water from the agglomerations of Goyave, Bastelica, Morne-à-l’Eau, Aiguilles-Château-Ville Vieille, Borgo-Nord, Isola, Plombières-les-Bains, Saint-Céré, Vincey, Etueffont, Volx and Villeneuve, either for the entire amount of their discharges, in the case of agglomerations having a population equivalent of between 10 000 and 15 000, or for discharges into fresh water and estuaries, in the case of agglomerations having a population equivalent of between 2 000 and 10 000, the French Republic 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, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 294, 7.9.2015.