CELEX: 62010CA0479
Language: en
Date: 2011-05-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-479/10: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 10 May 2011 — European Commission v Kingdom of Sweden (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Environment — Directive 1999/30/EC — Pollution control — Limit values for concentrations of PM 10 in ambient air)

2.7.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 194/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 10 May 2011 — European Commission v Kingdom of Sweden
   (Case C-479/10) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Environment - Directive 1999/30/EC - Pollution control - Limit values for concentrations of PM10 in ambient air)
   2011/C 194/10
   Language of the case: Swedish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: A. Alcover San Pedro and K. Simonsson, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Sweden (represented by: A. Falk and C. Meyer-Seitz, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Article 5(1) of Council Directive 1999/30/EC of 22 April 1999 relating to limit values for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter and lead in ambient air (OJ 1999 L 163, p. 41) — PM10 particles exceeding limit values in ambient air in zones SW 2 and SW 4 in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and in zone SW 5 in 2005 and 2006.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by exceeding the limit values for concentrations of PMlO in ambient air from 2005 to 2007 in zones SW 2 and SW 4 and in 2005 and 2006 in zone SW 5, the Kingdom of Sweden has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 5(1) of Council Directive 1999/30/EC of 22 April 1999 relating to limit values for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter and lead in ambient air;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Sweden to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 328, 4.12.2010.