CELEX: 62012CA0193
Language: en
Date: 2013-06-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-193/12: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 June 2013 — European Commission v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 91/676/EEC — Protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources — Designation of vulnerable zones — Excessive nitrate content — Eutrophication — Obligation of four-yearly revision)

3.8.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 225/33
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 June 2013 — European Commission v French Republic
   (Case C-193/12) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 91/676/EEC - Protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources - Designation of vulnerable zones - Excessive nitrate content - Eutrophication - Obligation of four-yearly revision)
   2013/C 225/55
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: J. Hottiaux and B. Simon, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues and S. Menez, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Article 3(1) and (4) of Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (OJ 1991 L 375, p. 1) and Annex I thereto — Incomplete identification of vulnerable zones — Excessive nitrate content — Eutrophication — Incorrect four-yearly revision
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to designate as vulnerable zones a number of zones characterised by the presence of surface and groundwater bodies which are, or may be, affected by excessive nitrate content and/or eutrophication, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 3(1) and (4) of Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources, and Annex I thereto;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 217, 21.7.2012.