Austria and Portugal have joined a long list of EU Member States condemned by the European Court of Justice for failing to give priority to the recycling or "regeneration" of waste oils under Directive 75/439/EEC of 16 June 1975 on the disposal of waste oils. The rulings' impact could be negligible, however, since the European Commission - which brought the cases - has now indicated that it wants to scrap the very requirement breached by the two Member States.