Jurisprudence
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Criteria for ENGO standing - The criteria in law for ENGO standing must be read generously in order to meet with the international obligations on access to justice in environmental matters.
Publisher: UNECE / Task Force on Access to Justice
Criteria for ENGO standing –The criteria in law for ENGO standing must be read generously in order to meet with the international obligations on access to justice in environmental matters.
Publisher: UNECE / Task Force on Access to Justice
Costs – The Court of Appeal endorsed the flexible approach adopted in the cases of Compton and Buglife and considered that, in principle,there would be no barrier to the granting of a Protective Cost…
Publisher: UNECE / Task Force on Access to Justice
Public participation and costs – The Administrative (High) Court found it necessary to take a different approach to the general rule that costs follow the event in line with the Sullivan Report (…
Publisher: UNECE / Task Force on Access to Justice
Review procedure and costs (art. 2, 6 and 9) – The ECJ found that the EIA for a private road development damaging a coastal wetland was in compliance with EU Directive 85/337/EEC. However, on the…
Publisher: UNECE / Task Force on Access to Justice
NGO standing - The special protection of the environment given by art. 45 of the Spanish Constitution, and the broad and collective interests and protections on Spanish citizens require a wide scope…
Publisher: UNECE / Task Force on Access to Justice
A group of members of parliament claimed that the regulations on use and building of a particular territory in the capital of Latvia were contrary to art. 115 of the Constitution of the Republic of…
Publisher: UNECE / Task Force on Access to Justice
Access to justice for NGOs - Environmental NGOs are entitled to bring an action in order to be awarded environmental damages, also in criminal proceedings when they represent environmental interests…
Publisher: UNECE / Task Force on Access to Justice
NGO standing (art. 2.5, 9.2) – The Administrative Appeals Court of Schleswig granted an environmental NGO standing to appeal a zoning plan, stating that EU Directive 2003/35/EC was directly…
Publisher: UNECE / Task Force on Access to Justice
Standing for individuals (art. 2.5, 9.3) - Residents of a municipality are allowed to bring, on behalf of an inactive municipality, an action for cessation of building activities that harms the…
Publisher: UNECE / Task Force on Access to Justice
