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Case C-404/13, The Queen, on the application of Client Earth v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs EU:C:2014:2382, OJ C – 26 of 26.1.2015, p. 6.
When a Member State finds that the limit values cannot be respected before the deadline fixed by the Air Quality Directive and wishes to postpone that deadline for a maximum of five years, that Member State is required to make an application for the postponement of the deadline by drawing up an air quality plan demonstrating how those limits will be met before the new deadline (official headnote).
1 Richard Macrory, “European Court rules on air quality obligation”, Ends Report 479, January 2015, at p. 22.
2 European Commission, Press Release, “Commission takes action against UK for persistent air pollution problems”, IP/14/154, 20 February 2014.