Commission v Austria
Austria was found to have failed to transpose the provisions of the Directive relating to blasting supplies and explosives; failed to transpose into the law of the land of Salzburg the provisions relating to electricity production; failed to have transposed Article 11 detailing external emergency plans into the law of the lands of Salzburg, Styrie and Tyrol; failed to have transposed Article 12 on taking the objectives of the Directive into account in land-use planning and other relevant policies into the law of the land of Upper Austria; and to have failed to transpose Article 8 paragraph 2 on informing the public and competent authorities of their external emergency plans into the law of the lands of Upper Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
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