Official Journal of the European Union

C 367/9

(Case C-151/12) (<span class="super">1</span>)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Environment - Directive 2000/60/EC - Framework for Community action in the field of water policy - Transposition of Articles 4(8), 7(2), 10(1) and (2) of and sections 1.3 and 1.4 of Annex V to Directive 2000/60 - Intracommunal and intercommunal river basins - Article 149(3) of the Spanish Constitution - Supplementing clause)

2013/C 367/14

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: European Commission (represented by: G. Valero Jordana, E. Manhaeve and B. Simon, Agents)

Defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: A. Rubio González, Agent)

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Articles 4(8), 7(2) and 10(1) and (2), and Sections 1.3 and 1.4 of Annex V, of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (OJ 2000 L 327, p. 1) — Environmental objectives — Waters used for the abstraction of drinking water — Surface water — Intracommunal river basins

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Declares that, by having failed to adopt all the measures necessary to transpose Articles 4(8), 7(2) and 10(1) and (2) of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy and section 1.3 and subsection 1.4.1(i) to (iii) of Annex V thereto, to which Article 8(2) of that directive refers, in respect of the intracommunal river basins outside Catalonia, and Articles 7(2) and 10(1) and (2) of Directive 2000/60 in respect of the intracommunal river basins in Catalonia, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under that directive;

2.Dismisses the action as to the remainder;

3.Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.

(<span class="super">1</span>) OJ C 174, 16.6.2012.