EU Court fines Greece for failing compliance waste directive

Greece is ordered to pay financial penalties for failing to comply with a 2005 judgment of the European Court of Justice establishing its failure to fulfil obligations under the ‘Waste Directive’. In addition to a lump sum of €10 million, the Court orders Greece, until the 2005 judgment is complied with in full, to make a penalty payment, the actual amount of which will depend on the progress made by Greece, but which, if there is no such progress, will be more than €14 million for each six-month period of delay.
In 2009 the Commission sent it a letter of formal notice, followed, in 2010, by a supplementary letter of formal notice (Press Release Court of Justice, 2 December 2014).
Click here for the press release (212 kB).
Click here for the judgment.
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