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Document 62019CN0629

    Case C-629/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark (Austria) lodged on 23 August 2019 — Sappi Austria Produktions-GmbH & Co KG and Wasserverband ‘Region Gratkorn-Gratwein’

    OJ C 399, 25.11.2019, p. 23–23 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

    25.11.2019   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    C 399/23

    Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark (Austria) lodged on 23 August 2019 — Sappi Austria Produktions-GmbH & Co KG and Wasserverband ‘Region Gratkorn-Gratwein’

    (Case C-629/19)

    (2019/C 399/27)

    Language of the case: German

    Referring court

    Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark

    Parties to the main proceedings

    Appellants: Sappi Austria Produktions-GmbH & Co KG, Wasserverband ‘Region Gratkorn-Gratwein’

    Defendant authority: Landeshauptmann der Steiermark

    Questions referred

    1.

    Is sewage sludge to be regarded as waste in light of the exclusion under Article 2(2)(a) of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives (1) in conjunction with Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment and/or the Sewage Sludge Directive, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008? (2)

    2.

    If the first question is answered in the affirmative:

     

    Does Article 6(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives permit a substance to be classified as a by-product within the meaning of the concept of waste under EU law if, for process-related reasons, other substances which would otherwise have to be regarded as waste are added to that substance in a small proportion, if this has no effect on the composition of the substance as a whole and provides a significant benefit to the environment?

    (1)  OJ 2008 L 312, p. 3.

    (2)  OJ 2008 L 311, p. 1.

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