CELEX: 62019CA0629
Language: en
Date: 2020-10-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-629/19: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 14 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark — Austria) — Sappi Austria Produktions-GmbH & Co. KG, Wasserverband ‘Region Gratkorn-Gratwein’ v Landeshauptmann von Steiermark (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Waste — Directive 2008/98/EC — Article 2(2)(a), point 1 of Article 3 and Article 6(1) — Waste water — Sewage sludge — Scope — Concept of ‘waste’ — Cessation of waste status — Recovery or recycling operation)

7.12.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 423/12
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 14 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark — Austria) — Sappi Austria Produktions-GmbH & Co. KG, Wasserverband ‘Region Gratkorn-Gratwein’ v Landeshauptmann von Steiermark
      (Case C-629/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Environment - Waste - Directive 2008/98/EC - Article 2(2)(a), point 1 of Article 3 and Article 6(1) - Waste water - Sewage sludge - Scope - Concept of ‘waste’ - Cessation of waste status - Recovery or recycling operation)
      (2020/C 423/18)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Sappi Austria Produktions-GmbH & Co. KG, Wasserverband ‘Region Gratkorn-Gratwein’
      
         Defendant: Landeshauptmann von Steiermark
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 2(2)(a), point 1 of Article 3 and Article 6(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives must be interpreted as meaning that sewage sludge generated during the joint treatment of industrial and residential or municipal waste water in a sewage treatment plant, which is incinerated in a waste incineration plant for the purposes of energy recovery by generating steam, must be regarded as not being waste if the conditions in Article 6(1) of Directive 2008/98 are already met before its incineration. It is for the referring court to determine whether that is the case in the main proceedings.
      
         (1)  OJ C 399, 25.11.2019.