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Legal standing of environmental associations and their local branches.

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…

Definition of environmental information (art. 2.3) - The Court of First Instance accepted that the European Council refused to grant WWF access to preliminary papers on the Cancun negotiations on the…

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 (…

Costs – The leading Court of Appeal case concerning the granting of Protective Costs Orders (PCOs), in which a claimant seeks to limit his or her exposure to the defendant's legal costs. The Court…

The High Court accepted that the criterion established for the granting of Protective Costs Orders (PCOs) in the Corner House case must in environmental cases be applied flexibly and in the light of…

Those countries that ratified the Aarhus Convention, and the European Union, committed themselves to promote the application of the principles of the Convention in international environmental…

Further to a reference for a preliminary ruling, the Court ruled that "Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention does not have direct effect in EU law. It is, however, for the referring court to…

On 22 March 2011, the General Court of the European Union found that the Council of the EU wrongly refused to disclose the identity of countries taking positions on reform of the EU’s access to…

Tbilisi is the first capital city in the Eastern Partnership countries of the EU to sign the Covenant of Mayors and together with other important obligations, the city become responsible for…