CELEX: C2005/045/22
Language: en
Date: 2005-02-19 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 December 2004 in Case C-172/04: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to transpose — Directive 1999/31/EC — Waste management — Landfill of waste — Inert waste from building and public works)

19.2.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 45/11
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 16 December 2004
   in Case C-172/04: Commission of the European Communities v French Republic (1)
   
   (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Failure to transpose - Directive 1999/31/EC - Waste management - Landfill of waste - Inert waste from building and public works)
   (2005/C 45/22)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-172/04: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: C.-F Durand and M. Konstantinidis) v French Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues and C. Mercier) – action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 7 April 2004 – the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of R. Silva de Lapuerta, President of the Chamber, C. Gulmann and J. Kluÿka (Rapporteur), Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 16 December 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to adopt all the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive.
            
         
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               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 106 of 30.04.2004.