54As regards, in the first place, the seriousness of the infringement, it should be borne in mind, as the Court has held, that the obligation to dispose of waste without endangering human health and without harming the environment is inherent in the key objectives of EU environmental policy as set out in Article 191 TFEU. The failure to comply with the obligation under Article 4 of Directive 75/442 could, by the very nature of that obligation, endanger human health directly and harm the environment and must be regarded as particularly serious (judgment in Commission v Greece, EU:C:2000:356, paragraph 94).
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