Opinion of Advocate General Jacobs delivered on 18 May 1994

1 Original language: English.

2 OJ 1993 L 30, p. 1. The title of the French version of the Regulation refers only to shipments of waste into and out of the Community (... des transferts de déchets à l'entrée et à la sortie de la Communauté européenne). However, the title of the English version reflects more accurately the content of the Regulation.

3 See Case C-70/88 Parliamentv Council [1990] ECR I-2041 (Capacity of the European Parliament to bring an action for annulment). See now Article 173, third paragraph, of the Treaty as amended by the Treaty on European Union.

4 See in particular Article 130r(4) of the Treaty (previously Article 130r(5)).

5 Cf. Case C-70/88 Parliament v Council (Radioactive contamination of foodstuffs) [1991] ECR I-4529, paragraph 20 of the judgment.

6 Council Resolution of 7 May 1990 on waste policy (OJ 1990 C 122, p. 2).

7 OJ 1975 L 194, p. 39.

8 Council Directive 84/631/EEC of 6 December 1984 on the supervision and control within the European Community of the transfrontier shipment of hazardous waste (OJ 1984 L 326, p. 31).

9 Council Directive 91/156/EEC of 18 March 1991 amending Directive 75/442/EEC on waste (OJ 1991 L 78, p. 32).

10 See Council Decision 93/98/EEC of 1 February 1993 on the conclusion, on behalf of the Community, of the Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal (Basle Convention) (OJ 1993 L 39, p. 1).

11 See the Decision of the Council and the Commission 91/400/ECSC, EEC of 25 February 1991 on the conclusion of the Fourth ACP-EEC Convention (OJ 1991 L 229, p. 1).

12 Paris, 30 March 1992.

13 Cited above, note; amended by Directive 91/156, cited above, note.

14 See the fourth recital of the directive.

15 Those lists are based on the Decision of the OECD Council of 30 March 1992, cited above in note.

16 Cited above in notes and.

17 Case 2/90 Commission v Belgium [1992] ECR I-4431.

18 See paragraphs 20 to 21 and 31 to 32 of the judgment.

19 See Geradin, in European Law Review vol. 18 (1993) at p. 426.

20 See Kramer, in Groeben/Thiesing/Ehlermann Kommentar zum EWC-Vertrag (4th edition, Baden-Baden 1991), pp. 4004-4005.

21 Case C-300/89 Commissionv Council [1991] ECR I-2867.

22 Council Directive 89/428/EEC of 21 June 1989 on procedures for harmonizing the programmes for the reduction and eventual elimination of pollution caused by waste from the titanium dioxide industry (OJ 1989 L 201, p. 56).

23 Paragraph 10 of the judgment.

24 Paragraph 13 of the judgment.

25 See paragraphs 21 to 25 of the judgment.

26 Case C-155/91 Commission v Council [1993] ECR I-939.

27 See above, note.

28 See paragraphs 18 to 20 of the judgment, and see also Case C-70/88 Parliament v Council, cited above in note.

29 See Titanium Dioxide, cited above in note, p. I-2885.

30 See above, paragraph.

31 See paragraph.

32 See the Directive on waste case, cited in note, paragraphs 10 and 15 of the judgment.

33 See above, paragraph 28.

34 See above, paragraph 31.

35 Cited above, note 25.

36 See Council Directive 91/157/EEC of 18 March 1991 on batteries and accumulators containing certain dangerous substances (OJ 1991 L 78, p. 38), in particular Articles 3 and 9.

37 Council Resolution of 7 May 1990, cited above in note 5; my emphasis.

38 See above, paragraph 16.

39 See above, paragraphs 20 and 23.

40 See above, paragraph 24.