4.7.2022

Official Journal of the European Union

C 257/29

(Case C-328/22)

(2022/C 257/37)

Language of the case: Slovenian

Parties

Applicant: European Commission (represented by: B. Rous Demiri, E. Sanfrutos Cano)

Defendant: Republic of Slovenia

Form of order sought

The Commission claims that the Court should:

1.declare that, by failing to ensure establishment of appropriate collecting systems for urban waste water under Article 4 of Council Directive 91/271/EEC, (1) for the agglomerations of Kočevje, Trbovlje, Loka and Ljubljana,

—under Article 5 of Council Directive 91/271/EEC, for the agglomerations of Kočevje, Trbovlje and Loka, and

—under Article 15 of, and sections B and D of Annex I to, Council Directive 91/271/EEC, for the agglomerations of Ljubljana and Ptuj,

declare that the Republic of Slovenia has failed to fulfil its relevant obligations under Articles 4, 5 and 15 of, and sections B and D of Annex I to, Council Directive 91/271/EEC concerning urban waste-water treatment;

order the Republic of Slovenia to pay the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments

The present case concerns the implementation in Slovenia of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment. The case concerns a long and comprehensive procedure seeking to establish failure to fulfil obligations provided for in EU law, which has been ongoing since 2014 and during the course of which the Commission established various infringements.

The infringement concerns the non-compliance with the directive of the waste water of certain agglomerations and the inadequate monitoring of discharge from the urban waste-water treatment plants. The number of agglomerations which failed to comply varied during the course of the procedure, given that certain infringements were remedied during the period in question, but others remain and constitute the basis of the present action.

(1) Council Directive 91/271/EEC concerning urban waste-water treatment (OJ 1991 L 135, p. 40).