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Sweden - Supreme Administrative Court (Regeringsrätten) - Great crested newt (Sweden); RÅ 2005 ref 44 - Summary with a link to the judgement. Key issue: The public interest and the scope of environmental impact assessment – Individuals, who are affected by a local development plan are able to invoke the public interest to advocate their cause. An environmental impact assessment for such a plan should cover all relevant impacts of the development in order to be able to take them into account in the decision making. Key words: Public concerned, environmental impact assessment, EIA, scope of review, protection of species, public interest English | Swedish
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Sweden - Supreme Administrative Court (Regeringsrätten) - Stora Billerud (Sweden); RÅ 1997 ref 38 - Summary with a link to the judgement. Key issue: Standing for individuals – the right of appeal is given to any person at risk of suffering harm or detriment caused by a decision, if that risk is not merely theoretical or completely insignificant. Key words: Public concerned, standing, individual’s standing, scope of review. English | Swedish
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Sweden - Supreme Administrative Court (Regeringsrätten) - Gabbens bergtäkt (Sweden); RÅ 1993 ref. 97 - Summary with a link to the judgement. Key issue: Public concerned and the public interest – When an individual appeals a permit decision, both private and public interests can be invoked to advocate his or her cause. Key words: Public concerned, standing, scope of review, public interest. English | Swedish
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Sweden - Supreme Court (Högsta domstolen) - Brännö Brygga, NJA 2004 s. 590 - Summary with a link to the judgement. Key issue: Public concerned (neighbours) – The ambition of the Swedish Environmental Code is to introduce a uniform and generous definition of “the public concerned”. Each person who can suffer any damage or nuisance from an activity – if the risk for such an impact concerns a legally protected interest and is not merely theoretical or insignificant – shall have the possibility to appeal a permit for that activity. Key words: Public concerned, stakeholders, neighbours, water works English | Swedish
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Sweden - Environmental Court of Appeal (Mark- och miljööverdomstolen) - Ragnsells (Sweden); MÖD 2011:XX - Summary with a link to the judgement. Key issue: Public concerned and omission by public authority – A decision of a supervisory authority not to apply for the revocation or updating of a permit (a so-called 0-decision) can be appealed and its substance can be challenged by those who are affected by the permitted activity. Kew words: Public concerned, individuals’ standing, stakeholders, neighbours, authority’s omission, permitted activity, revocation of permit, updating of permit English | Swedish
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Sweden - Environmental Court of Appeal (Mark- och miljööverdomstolen) - Gotland (Sweden); MÖD 2004:31 - Summary with a link to the judgement. Key issue: Public concerned and omission by public authority – A decision of a supervisory authority not to intervene in a certain activity (a so-called 0- decision) can be appealed and its substance can be challenged by the public concerned. Key words: Public concerned, individual’s standing, stakeholders, neighbours, authority’s omission English | Swedish
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Sweden - Environmental Court of Appeal (Mark- och miljööverdomstolen) - Perstorp (Sweden); MÖD 2003:98, MÖD 2003:99 - Summary with a link to the judgement. Key issue: The definition of the public concerned – When deciding on whom should be given the right to appeal a permit decision, decisive factors are the distance to the activity, the nature of the emissions (discharged substances) and the likely effect from them. Key words: Public concerned, standing. English | Swedish
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Sweden - Environmental Court of Appeal (Mark- och miljööverdomstolen) - Ödeshög (Sweden); MÖD 2003:19 - Summary with a link to the judgement. Key issue: Public concerned and omission by public authority – A decision of a supervisory authority not to intervene in a certain activity (a so-called 0-decision) can be appealed and its substance can be challenged by the public concerned. Key words: Public concerned, individuals’ standing, stakeholders, neighbours, omission by authority. English | Swedish
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Sweden - Environmental Court of Appeal (Mark- och miljööverdomstolen) - Uppsala Värme (Sweden); MÖD 2002:82 - Summary with a link to the judgement. Key issues: The definition of the public concerned – Individuals living 5 km from an incineration plant and thus at risk of being affected by air pollution were allowed to appeal the permit decision for that operation. Key words: Public concerned, standing, neighbours English | Swedish
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Sweden - Environmental Court of Appeal (Miljööverdomstolen) - Mettinge (Sweden); MÖD 2001:29 - Summary with a link to the judgement. Key issue: the definition of public concerned (neighbours) – Neighbours cannot appeal decisions which only concern the public interest as their individual interest is not affected. Key words: public concerned, stakeholders, neighbours, area protection, public interest. English | Swedish
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