CELEX: 62013CA0023
Language: en
Date: 2013-11-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-23/13: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 7 November 2013 — European Commission v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 91/271/EEC — Urban waste water treatment — Articles 3 and 4)

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 9/16
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 7 November 2013 — European Commission v French Republic
   (Case C-23/13) (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 91/271/EEC - Urban waste water treatment - Articles 3 and 4)
   2014/C 9/25
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: J.-P. Keppenne and E. Manhaever, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: French Republic (represented by: D. Colas and S. Menez, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Breach of Articles 3 and 4 of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water treatment (OJ 1991 L 135, p. 40) — Deficiencies in the collection and treatment of urban waste water in 8 agglomerations
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to provide for:
               
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                           the collection of urban waste waters in the agglomeration of Basse-Terre, with a population equivalent of more than 15 000, and
                        
                     
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                           the treatment of urban waste waters in the agglomerations of Ajaccio-Sanguinaires, Basse-Terre, Bastia-Nord, Cayenne-Leblond and Saint-Denis, with a population equivalent of more than 15 000,
                        
                     the French Republic failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 3, 4(1) and 4(3) of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water treatment.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 79, 16.3.2013.