Official Journal of the European Union

C 285/5

(Case C-316/06) (<span class="super">1</span>)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Environment - Directive 91/271/EEC - Pollution and nuisance - Treatment of urban waste water)

(2008/C 285/07)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: S. Pardo Quintillán and D. Lawunmi, Agents)

Defendant: Ireland (represented by: D. O'Hagan, Agent)

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Infringement of Article 4(1) and (3) of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment (OJ 1991 L 135, p. 40) — Failure to ensure that the waste water from a number of agglomerations is made subject to secondary treatment or an equivalent treatment before entering collecting systems (agglomerations of Bray, Howth, Letterkenny, Shanganagh, Sligo and Tramore, County Waterford)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Declares that, by failing, first, in respect of discharges from the agglomerations known as IE22, Bray, IE31, Howth, IE34, Letterkenny, IE40, Shanganagh, IE41, Sligo, and IE45, Tramore, County Waterford, to ensure that, before discharge, waste water entering collecting systems was made subject to secondary treatment or an equivalent treatment at the latest by 31 December 2000 and by failing, second, to ensure that the discharge of that waste water satisfied the relevant requirements of Annex I.B to Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water treatment by the said deadline, Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 4(1) and (3) of that directive;

2.Orders Ireland to pay the costs.

(<span class="super">1</span>) OJ C 224, 16.9.2006.