The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[2000] QB 636
[COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES]
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
v.
IRELAND
(Case C-392/96)
1998 Sept. 24;
Dec. 17;
1999 Sept. 21
Dec. 17;
1999 Sept. 21
President of Chamber J.-P. Puissochet Judges J. C. Moitinho de Almeida, C. Gulmann, D. A. O. Edward and L. Sevón Advocate General A. La Pergola
European Community
— Environment
— Environmental impact assessment
— Projects requiring assessment
— Member states' discretion to set thresholds
— Limits of discretion
— Whether setting of threshold relating to size of project alone permissible
—
Council Directive (85/337/E.E.C.), arts. 2(1), 4(2)
European Community
— Council Directive
— Transposition into national law
— Defective transposition alleged
— Whether necessary for Commission to demonstrate defect apparent in practical application of transposing legislation
— Whether sufficient to demonstrate defect manifest in wording of legislation