The Court of Justice of the European Union has ordered Slovenia to pay a lump sum of €1.2 million for failing to comply with a previous judgment from July 2015 (Case C-140/14) requiring it to clean up an area in the municipality of Teharje that had been used as an illegal landfill, in a ruling handed down on Thursday 8 May (Case C-318/23).
Having found that the Slovenian authorities had not complied with the 2015 judgment, even though the deadline for doing so had been set for August 2018, the European Commission brought an action for failure to fulfil obligations in 2023 (see EUROPE 13123/25). In Commission’s view, the delay in cleaning up the Slovenian landfill could no longer be justified by the disruption to administrative activities caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
In setting the amount of the fixed fine, the Court of Justice took account of the seriousness and duration of the infringements of EU law governing the landfilling of waste (Directives 1999/31, 2003/33 and 2008/98).
See the judgment of the Court of Justice: https://aeur.eu/f/gpk (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)