CELEX: 62012CA0151
Language: en
Date: 2013-10-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-151/12: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 24 October 2013 — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Environment — Directive 2000/60/EC — Framework for Community action in the field of water policy — Transposition of Articles 4(8), 7(2), 10(1) and (2) of and sections 1.3 and 1.4 of Annex V to Directive 2000/60 — Intracommunal and intercommunal river basins — Article 149(3) of the Spanish Constitution — Supplementing clause)

14.12.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 367/9
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 24 October 2013 — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-151/12) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Environment - Directive 2000/60/EC - Framework for Community action in the field of water policy - Transposition of Articles 4(8), 7(2), 10(1) and (2) of and sections 1.3 and 1.4 of Annex V to Directive 2000/60 - Intracommunal and intercommunal river basins - Article 149(3) of the Spanish Constitution - Supplementing clause)
   2013/C 367/14
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: G. Valero Jordana, E. Manhaeve and B. Simon, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: A. Rubio González, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Articles 4(8), 7(2) and 10(1) and (2), and Sections 1.3 and 1.4 of Annex V, of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (OJ 2000 L 327, p. 1) — Environmental objectives — Waters used for the abstraction of drinking water — Surface water — Intracommunal river basins
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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               Declares that, by having failed to adopt all the measures necessary to transpose Articles 4(8), 7(2) and 10(1) and (2) of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy and section 1.3 and subsection 1.4.1(i) to (iii) of Annex V thereto, to which Article 8(2) of that directive refers, in respect of the intracommunal river basins outside Catalonia, and Articles 7(2) and 10(1) and (2) of Directive 2000/60 in respect of the intracommunal river basins in Catalonia, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 174, 16.6.2012.