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Document 62006CJ0054

Sentenza tal-Qorti tal-Ġustizzja (il-Ħames Awla) tas-7 ta' Diċembru 2006.
il-Kummissjoni tal-Komunitajiet Ewropej vs ir-Renju tal-Belġju.
Nuqqas ta' Stat li jwettaq obbligu - Direttiva 2001/42/KE.
Kawża C-54/06.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2006:767





Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 7 December 2006 – Commission v Belgium

(Case C-54/06)

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 2001/42/EC – Assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment – Failure to transpose within the period prescribed

1.                     Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of merits by the Court – Situation to be taken into consideration – Situation on expiry of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 7)

2.                     Member States – Obligations – Implementation of directives – Failure to fulfil obligations – National legal system pleaded as justification – Not permissible (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 9)

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Failure to adopt, within the period prescribed, all the provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2001 on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment (OJ 2001 L 197, p. 30).

Operative part

The Court:

1.

Declares that, by failing to adopt, within the period prescribed, all the provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2001 on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;

2.

Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.

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