The Weekly Law Reports
[2012] 3 WLR 278
Court of Justice of the European Union
Lesoochranárske zoskupenie VLK
v
Ministerstvo životného prostredia Slovenskej republiky
(Case C-240/09)
2010 May 4;
July 15;
2011 March 8
President V Skouris,Presidents of Chambers A Tizzano, J N Cunha Rodrigues, K Lenaerts, J-C Bonichot, K Schiemann, D Šváby,Judges A Rosas, R Silva de Lapuerta, U Lõhmus, A Ó Caoimh, M Safjan, M BergerAdvocate General E Sharpston
European Union— International treaties— Access to justice in environmental matters— European Community and member states concluding international treaty on access to justice in environmental matters on basis of joint competence— European Union subsequently adopting legislation concerning access to administrative and judicial procedures involving challenges to decisions of European Union institutions in environmental matters— Member states retaining responsibility for implementing treaty obligations in respect of national administrative or judicial proceedings— Whether Court of Justice having jurisdiction to rule on whether international treaty provision having direct effect— Whether international treaty provision on public access to administrative or judicial procedures in environmental matters having direct effect—
Council Directive 92/43/EEC, arts 12(1), 16(1)
—
Council Decision
2005/370/EC
—
Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters (1998), art 9(3)