CELEX: C2007/096/21
Language: en
Date: 2007-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-423/05: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 March 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Waste management — Directives 75/442/EEC and 1999/31/EC — Unlawful or unsupervised landfill sites)

28.4.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 96/13
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 29 March 2007 — Commission of the European Communities v French Republic
   (Case C-423/05) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Waste management - Directives 75/442/EEC and 1999/31/EC - Unlawful or unsupervised landfill sites)
   (2007/C 96/21)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: A. Caeiros and M. Konstantinidis, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues and O. Christmann, Agents)
   Re:
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Articles 4, 8 and 9 of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 (OJ 1975 L 194, p. 39) on waste, as amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC of 18 March 1991 amending Directive 75/442/EEC on waste (OJ 1991 L 78, p. 32) and Article 14(a), (b) and (c) of Council Directive 99/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste (OJ 1999 L 182, p. 1) — Failure to take necessary measures to close down or upgrade unlawful or unsupervised landfill sites
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Articles 4, 8 and 9 of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 on waste, as amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC of 18 March 1991, and Article 14(a), (b) and (c) of Council Directive 99/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under those provisions;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 48, 25.2.2006.