C_2011199EN.01000801.xml

7.7.2011

Official Journal of the European Union

C 199/8

Action brought on 11 April 2011 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority against Iceland

(Case E-8/11)

2011/C 199/04

An action against Iceland was brought before the EFTA Court on 11 April 2011 by the EFTA Surveillance Authority, represented by Xavier Lewis and Florence Simonetti, acting as Agents of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, 35, Rue Belliard, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

The EFTA Surveillance Authority requests the EFTA Court to declare that:

by failing to ensure that its competent authorities have made and, where relevant, approved strategic noise maps and drawn up noise action plans for all major roads on its territory which have more than six million vehicle passages a year, and to ensure that the information from strategic noise maps and summaries of the action plans as referred to in Annex VI to the Directive are sent to the EFTA Surveillance Authority, the Republic of Iceland has failed to fulfil its obligations arising from Articles 7(1), 8(1) and 10 of the Act referred to at point 32g of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement (Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise) as adapted to the EEA Agreement by Protocol 1 thereto;

and

2.	the Republic of Iceland be ordered to bear the costs of the proceedings.

Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:

—	The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that Iceland has failed to make noise maps and noise action plans regarding major roads with more than six million vehicle passages a year.

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The EFTA Surveillance Authority submits that such a failure constitutes a breach of Articles 7(1), 8(1) and 10 of Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise, referred to at point 32g of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement.