Court of Justice 6 October 2015, Case C-592/13: Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 6 October 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare, Ministero della Salute, Ministero dello Sviluppo economico v Ediltecnica SpA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court — Article 191(2) TFEU — Directive 2004/35/EC — Environmental liability — National legislation which does not provide for the possibility for the administrator to require the owners of contaminated sites who are not responsible for the contamination to implement preventive and remedial measures and which provides only for the obligation to reimburse the measures carried out by the administration — Compatibility with the ‘polluter pays’ principle, the precautionary principle, the principle of preventive action and the principle that environmental damage should as a priority be rectified at source)

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