Press release n§18/20

Commission v Greece (Pollution par les nitrates)

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The Court found for the first time that Greece had failed to fulfil its obligations in a judgment of 2015

By judgment of 23 April 2015,1the Court of Justice held that, by having failed to designate as vulnerable zones a number of zones–including those of the Plain of Thessaly and of the river Evros (see paragraph 15 of the judgment in Case C-149/14)–characterised by the presence of bodies of surface water and ground water affected by concentrations of nitrates above 50 milligrams per litre and/or by the phenomenon of eutrophication, and by not having established the action programmes relating to those zones within one year after such designation, Greece had infringed the directive concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources.2