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Document C2004/179/02

Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 27 May 2004 in Case C-398/02: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 75/442/EEC — Environment — Management of waste)

OJ C 179, 10.7.2004, p. 1–2 (ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, NL, PL, PT, SK, SL, FI, SV)

10.7.2004   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 179/1


JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Fourth Chamber)

of 27 May 2004

in Case C-398/02: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain (1)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Directive 75/442/EEC - Environment - Management of waste)

(2004/C 179/02)

Language of the case: Spanish

In Case C-398/02: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: G. Valero Jordana and M. Konstantinidis) v Kingdom of Spain (Agent: L. Fraguas Gadea) — application for a declaration that, by failing to adopt the measures necessary to ensure, as regards the landfill located at La Baneza (Spain), the implementation of Articles 4, 9 and 13 of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 on waste (OJ 1975 L 194, p. 39), as amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC of 18 March 1991 (OJ 1991 L 78, p. 32), the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive — the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of: J.N. Cunha Rodrigues (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, J.-P. Puissochet and  F. Macken, Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 27 May 2004, in which it:

1.

Declares that, by failing to adopt the measures necessary to ensure, as regards the landfill located at La Bañeza (Spain), the implementation of Articles 4, 9 and 13 of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 on waste, as amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC of 18 March 1991, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;

2.

Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.


(1)  OJ C 323, 21.12.2002.


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