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Record· CJCELEX 62015CJ0664decided

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 20 December 2017.#Protect Natur-, Arten- und Landschaftsschutz Umweltorganisation v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Gmünd.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Directive 2000/60/EC — EU action in the field of water policy — Article 4(1) and Article 14(1) — Obligations to prevent deterioration of the status of bodies of surface water and encourage the active involvement of all interested parties in the implementation of the directive — Aarhus Convention — Public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters — Article 6 and Article 9(3) and (4) — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Article 47 — Right to effective judicial protection — Project that is likely to have an impact on water status — Administrative procedure for a permit — Environmental organisation — Application seeking to secure status as a party to the administrative procedure — Possibility of relying on rights deriving from Directive 2000/60/EC — Extinction of the status of party to the procedure and of the right to bring an action if those rights are not exercised within good time during the administrative procedure.#Case C-664/15.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 20 December 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62016CC0577decided

Opinion of Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe delivered on 14 December 2017.#Trinseo Deutschland Anlagengesellschaft mbH v Bundesrepublik Deutschland.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the European Union — Directive 2003/87/EC — Scope — Article 2(1) — Annex I — Activities subject to the trading scheme — Production of polymers — Use of heat supplied by a third-party installation — Application for free allocation of emission allowances — Period 2013-2020.#Case C-577/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 14 December 2017

Record· TJCELEX 62015TJ0505decided

Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 14 December 2017.#Hungary v European Commission.#EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Regulations (EC) Nos 1782/2003, 1290/2005, 73/2009 and 1122/2009 — Expenditure incurred by Hungary — Conditionality — Control of Statutory Management Requirements — Control of good agricultural and environmental conditions — Lump-sum and specific corrections — Risk for the Funds.#Case T-505/15.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 14 December 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62016CC0057decided

Opinion of Advocate General Bot delivered on 28 November 2017.#ClientEarth v European Commission.#Appeal — Access to documents of the EU institutions — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 — Impact assessment report, draft impact assessment report and opinion of the Impact Assessment Board — Legislative initiatives in respect of environmental matters — Refusal to grant access — Disclosure of the documents requested in the course of the proceedings — Continuing interest in bringing proceedings — Exception relating to the protection of the ongoing decision-making process of an EU institution — General presumption.#Case C-57/16 P.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 28 November 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62016CC0572decided

Opinion of Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe delivered on 23 November 2017.#INEOS Köln GmbH v Bundesrepublik Deutschland.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the European Union — Directive 2003/87/EC — Article 10a — Decision 2011/278/EU — Transitional rules for harmonised free allocation of emission allowances — Period 2013-2020 — Allocation application — Incorrect data — Correction — Mandatory time limit.#Case C-572/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 23 November 2017

Record· CJCELEX 62015CJ0691decided

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 22 November 2017.#European Commission v Bilbaína de Alquitranes, SA and Others.#Appeal — Environment — Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 — Classification, labelling and packaging of certain substances and mixtures — Regulation (EU) No 944/2013 — Classification of pitch, coal tar, high-temperature — Categories of acute aquatic toxicity (H400) and chronic aquatic toxicity (H410) — Duty to act diligently — Manifest error of assessment.#Case C-691/15 P.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 22 November 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62016CC0236decided

Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 9 November 2017.#Asociación Nacional de Grandes Empresas de Distribución (ANGED) v Diputación General de Aragón.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo.#References for a preliminary ruling — Regional tax on large retail establishments — Freedom of establishment — Protection of the environment and town and country planning — State aid — Selective measure.#Case C-236/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 9 November 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62016CC0233decided

Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 9 November 2017.#Asociación Nacional de Grandes Empresas de Distribución (ANGED) v Generalitat de Catalunya.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regional tax on large retail establishments — Freedom of establishment — Protection of the environment and town and country planning — State aid — Selective measure — Letter from the Commission stating that no further action will be taken on a complaint — Existing aid.#Case C-233/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 9 November 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62016CC0234decided

Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 9 November 2017.#Asociación Nacional de Grandes Empresas de Distribución (ANGED) v Consejería de Economía y Hacienda del Principado de Asturias and Consejo de Gobierno del Principado de Asturias.#Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo.#References for a preliminary ruling — Regional tax on large retail establishments — Freedom of establishment — Protection of the environment and town and country planning — State aid — Selective measure.#Joined Cases C-234/16 and C-235/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 9 November 2017

Record· TOCELEX 62015TO0570decided

Order of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 26 October 2017.#Federcaccia della Regione Liguria and Others v European Commission.#Environment — Conservation of wild birds — Species which may be hunted — Conditions to be complied with by national laws on hunting — Harmonisation of the criteria for the application of Article 7(4) of Directive 2009/147/EC — Closed period of hunting in Liguria.#Case T-570/15.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 26 October 2017

Record· TOCELEX 62015TO0562decided

Order of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 26 October 2017.#Federcaccia Toscana and Others v European Commission.#Environment — Conservation of wild birds — Species which may be hunted — Conditions to be complied with by national laws on hunting — Harmonisation of the criteria for the application of Article 7(4) of Directive 2009/147/EC — Closed period for hunting in Tuscany.#Case T-562/15.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 26 October 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62016CC0470decided

Opinion of Advocate General Bobek delivered on 19 October 2017.#North East Pylon Pressure Campaign Limited and Maura Sheehy v An Bord Pleanála and Others.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the High Court (Ireland).#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Assessment of the effects of certain projects on the environment — Directive 2011/92/EU — Right of members of the public concerned to a review procedure — Premature challenge — Concepts of a not prohibitively expensive procedure and of decisions, acts or omissions subject to the public participation provisions of the directive — Applicability of the Aarhus Convention.#Case C-470/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 19 October 2017

Proposal· PCCELEX 52017PC0603open

Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, at the twentieth ordinary meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the protection of the marine environment and the coastal region of the Mediterranean, with regard to a proposal for amending Annex II to the Protocol concerning specially protected areas and biological diversity in the Mediterranean

European Union · European Commission · 19 October 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62015CC0664decided

Opinion of Advocate General Sharpston delivered on 12 October 2017.#Protect Natur-, Arten- und Landschaftsschutz Umweltorganisation v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Gmünd.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Directive 2000/60/EC — EU action in the field of water policy — Article 4(1) and Article 14(1) — Obligations to prevent deterioration of the status of bodies of surface water and encourage the active involvement of all interested parties in the implementation of the directive — Aarhus Convention — Public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters — Article 6 and Article 9(3) and (4) — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Article 47 — Right to effective judicial protection — Project that is likely to have an impact on water status — Administrative procedure for a permit — Environmental organisation — Application seeking to secure status as a party to the administrative procedure — Possibility of relying on rights deriving from Directive 2000/60/EC — Extinction of the status of party to the procedure and of the right to bring an action if those rights are not exercised within good time during the administrative procedure.#Case C-664/15.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 12 October 2017

Record· CJCELEX 62016CJ0215decided

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 20 September 2017.#Elecdey Carcelen SA and Others v Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha.#Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Castilla-La Mancha.#References for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Electricity generated by wind power — Directive 2009/28/EC — Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources — Subparagraph (k) of the second subparagraph of Article 2 — Aid scheme — Subparagraph (e) of the second subparagraph of Article 13(1) — Administrative charges — Directive 2008/118/EC — General arrangements for excise duty — Article 1(2) — Other indirect taxes for specific purposes — Directive 2003/96/EC — Taxation of energy products and electricity — Article 4 — Minimum rate of taxation on energy — Levy imposed on turbines designed to produce electricity.#Joined Cases C-215/16, C-216/16, C-220/16 and C-221/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 20 September 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62015CC0691decided

Opinion of Advocate General Bobek delivered on 7 September 2017.#European Commission v Bilbaína de Alquitranes, SA and Others.#Appeal — Environment — Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 — Classification, labelling and packaging of certain substances and mixtures — Regulation (EU) No 944/2013 — Classification of pitch, coal tar, high-temperature — Categories of acute aquatic toxicity (H400) and chronic aquatic toxicity (H410) — Duty to act diligently — Manifest error of assessment.#Case C-691/15 P.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 7 September 2017

Decision· DCELEX 32017D1508in force

Commission Decision (EU) 2017/1508 of 28 August 2017 on the reference document on best environmental management practice, sector environmental performance indicators and benchmarks of excellence for the food and beverage manufacturing sector under Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the voluntary participation by organisations in a Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS) (Text with EEA relevance. )

European Union · EUR-Lex · 28 August 2017

Record· CJCELEX 62016CJ0196decided

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 26 July 2017.#Comune di Corridonia and Others v Provincia di Macerata and Provincia di Macerata Settore 10 – Ambiente.#Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per le Marche.#References for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Directive 85/337/EEC — Directive 2011/92/EU — Possibility of carrying out, a posteriori, an environmental impact assessment of an operational plant for the production of energy from biogas with a view to obtaining a new consent.#Joined Cases C-196/16 and C-197/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 26 July 2017

Record· CJCELEX 62016CJ0080decided

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 26 July 2017.#ArcelorMittal Atlantique et Lorraine SASU v Ministre de l’Écologie, du Développement durable et de lʼÉnergie.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal administratif de Montreuil.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Directive 2003/87/EC — Article 10a(1) — EU greenhouse gas emission allowance trading scheme — Free allocation of allowances — Decision 2011/278/EU — Validity — Principle of sound administration — Determination of the product benchmark for hot metal — Use of data in the ‘BREF’ for iron and steel production and guidelines for establishing benchmarks for hot metal — Meaning of ‘similar products’ — Reference installations — Obligation to state reasons.#Case C-80/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 26 July 2017

Record· CJCELEX 62015CJ0060decided

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 13 July 2017.#Saint-Gobain Glass Deutschland GmbH v European Commission.#Appeal — Right of access to documents held by EU institutions — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Exceptions to the right of access — Article 4(3), first subparagraph — Protection of the decision-making process of those institutions — Environment — Aarhus Convention — Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 — Article 6(1) — Public interest in the disclosure of environmental information — Information communicated by the German authorities to the European Commission pertaining to installations situated on German territory and concerned by the Union legislation on the scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading — Partial refusal of access.#Case C-60/15 P.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 13 July 2017

Record· CJCELEX 62016CJ0129decided

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 13 July 2017.#Túrkevei Tejtermelő Kft. v Országos Környezetvédelmi és Természetvédelmi Főfelügyelőség.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Szolnoki Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Articles 191 and 193 TFEU — Directive 2004/35/EC — Applicability ratione materiae — Air pollution caused by illegal waste incineration — Polluter-pays principle — National legislation establishing joint liability between the owner of the land on which the pollution occurred and the polluter.#Case C-129/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 13 July 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62016CC0215decided

Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 1 June 2017.#Elecdey Carcelen SA and Others v Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha.#Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Castilla-La Mancha.#References for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Electricity generated by wind power — Directive 2009/28/EC — Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources — Subparagraph (k) of the second subparagraph of Article 2 — Aid scheme — Subparagraph (e) of the second subparagraph of Article 13(1) — Administrative charges — Directive 2008/118/EC — General arrangements for excise duty — Article 1(2) — Other indirect taxes for specific purposes — Directive 2003/96/EC — Taxation of energy products and electricity — Article 4 — Minimum rate of taxation on energy — Levy imposed on turbines designed to produce electricity.#Joined Cases C-215/16, C-216/16, C-220/16 and C-221/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 1 June 2017

Record· CJCELEX 62015CJ0529decided

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 1 June 2017.#Proceedings brought by Gert Folk.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environmental liability — Directive 2004/35/EC — Article 17 — Temporal scope of application — Operation of a hydroelectric power plant put into operation before the period for transposing that directive had expired — Article 2(1)(b) — Concept of ‘environmental damage’ — National law excluding all damage covered by an authorisation — Article 12(1) — Access to justice in environmental matters — Locus standi — Directive 2000/60/EC — Article 4(7) — Direct effect.#Case C-529/15.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 1 June 2017

Decision· DCELEX 32017D1243in force

Council Decision (EU) 2017/1243 of 29 May 2017 on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) during the 98th session of the Maritime Safety Committee and the 71st session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee, on the adoption of amendments to SOLAS Regulation II-1/23, SOLAS Regulation II-2/9.4.1.3, the 1994 and 2000 International High Speed Craft Codes, the International Life-saving Appliance Code and Appendix V to MARPOL Annex VI

European Union · EUR-Lex · 29 May 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62016CC0031decided

Opinion of Advocate General Szpunar delivered on 18 May 2017.#College van Burgemeester en Wethouders van de gemeente Amersfoort v X BV and Visser Vastgoed Beleggingen BV v Raad van de gemeente Appingedam.#Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden and Raad van State.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Services in the internal market — Directive 2006/123/EC — Scope — Article 2(2)(c) — Exclusion of electronic communications services and networks — Article 4(1) — Concept of ‘service’ — Retail trade in goods — Chapter III — Freedom of establishment of service providers — Applicability in purely internal situations — Article 15 — Requirements to be evaluated — Territorial restriction — Zoning plan prohibiting the activity of retail trade in goods other than bulky goods in geographical zones situated outside the city centre — Protection of the urban environment — Authorisation of electronic communications services and networks — Directive 2002/20/EC — Financial payments attached to rights to install facilities for a public electronic communications network.#Joined Cases C-360/15 and C-31/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 18 May 2017

Record· TJCELEX 62015TJ0681decided

Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 3 May 2017.#Environmental Manufacturing LLP v European Union Intellectual Property Office.#EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for an EU figurative mark representing a wolf’s head — Earlier international figurative mark Outils WOLF — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009.#Case T-681/15.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 3 May 2017

Record· CJCELEX 62016CJ0142decided

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 26 April 2017.#European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany.#Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Environment — Directive 92/43/EEC — Article 6(3) — Conservation of natural habitats — Construction of a coal-fired power plant in Moorburg (Germany) — Natura 2000 areas situated upstream of that coal-fired power plant on the corridor of the Elbe river — Assessment of the implications of a plan or project for a protected site.#Case C-142/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 26 April 2017

Proposal· PCCELEX 52017PC0174open

Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union at the International Maritime Organization during the 98th session of the Maritime Safety Committee and the 71st session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee on the adoption of amendments to SOLAS Regulation II-1/23, SOLAS Regulation II-2/9.4.1.3, the 1994 and 2000 High Speed Craft Codes, the International Life-saving Appliance Code and to Appendix V of MARPOL Annex VI

European Union · European Commission · 12 April 2017

Record· TJCELEX 62016TJ0238decided

Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 6 April 2017.#Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking v Scouring Environment SARL.#Arbitration clause — Grant agreement concluded in the framework of the Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007-2013) — Non-performance of the contract — Repayment of the sums advanced — Default interest — Procedure by default.#Case T-238/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 6 April 2017

Record· CJCELEX 62015CJ0488decided

Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 5 April 2017.#European Commission v Republic of Bulgaria.#Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Environment — Directive 2008/50/EC — Ambient air quality — Article 13(1) — Annex XI — Daily and annual limit values for PM10 concentrations — Systematic and continuous exceedance of the limit values — Article 22 — Postponement of the deadlines set to attain certain limit values — Conditions under which applicable — Article 23(1) — Air quality plans — ‘Shortest possible’ exceedance period — Appropriate measures — Information needed for an assessment.#Case C-488/15.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 5 April 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62016CC0196decided

Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 30 March 2017.#Comune di Corridonia and Others v Provincia di Macerata and Provincia di Macerata Settore 10 – Ambiente.#Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per le Marche.#References for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Directive 85/337/EEC — Directive 2011/92/EU — Possibility of carrying out, a posteriori, an environmental impact assessment of an operational plant for the production of energy from biogas with a view to obtaining a new consent.#Joined Cases C-196/16 and C-197/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 30 March 2017

Record· CJCELEX 62016CJ0335decided

Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 30 March 2017.#VG Čistoća d.o.o. v Đuro Vladika and Ljubica Vladika.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Općinski sud u Velikoj Gorici.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Waste — Directive 2008/98/EC — Recovery of waste management costs — Polluter-pays principle — Concept of ‘waste holders’ — Price charged for waste management — Special levy intended to finance capital investments.#Case C-335/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 30 March 2017

Report· CCCELEX 62016CC0080decided

Opinion of Advocate General Wahl delivered on 9 March 2017.#ArcelorMittal Atlantique et Lorraine SASU v Ministre de l’Écologie, du Développement durable et de lʼÉnergie.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal administratif de Montreuil.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Directive 2003/87/EC — Article 10a(1) — EU greenhouse gas emission allowance trading scheme — Free allocation of allowances — Decision 2011/278/EU — Validity — Principle of sound administration — Determination of the product benchmark for hot metal — Use of data in the ‘BREF’ for iron and steel production and guidelines for establishing benchmarks for hot metal — Meaning of ‘similar products’ — Reference installations — Obligation to state reasons.#Case C-80/16.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 9 March 2017

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