Court of Justice 19 March 1998, C-298/97 (Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General I - Introduction By an application under Article 169 of the EC Treaty, the Commission has asked the Court to declare that, by failing to adopt or communicate to the Commission within the prescribed period the programmes provided for in Article 6 of Council Directive 91/157/EEC of 18 March 1991 on batteries and accumulators containing