EU - Court Of Justice - Mr Edwards And Mr Pallicaropoulos (C-260/11)

2234 Skip to main content AARHUS CLEARINGHOUSE for Environmental Democracy EU - Court of Justice - Mr Edwards and Mr Pallicaropoulos (C-260/11) - Summary with link to preliminary ruling VIEW RESOURCE

Access to justice and costs in environmental cases - This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of the fifth paragraph of Article 10a of Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (OJ 1985 L 175, p. 40) and the fifth paragraph of Article 15a of Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control (OJ 1996 L 257, p. 26), as amended by Directive 2003/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 (OJ 2003 L 156, p. 17) (‘Directive 85/337’ and ‘Directive 96/61’, respectively).The request has been made in proceedings between, on the one hand, Mr Edwards and Ms Pallikaropoulos and, on the other, the Environment Agency, the First Secretary of State and the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs concerning a permit issued by the Environment Agency for the operation of a cement works. The request concerns the conformity with European Union law of the decision of the House of Lords ordering Ms Pallikaropoulos, whose appeal had been dismissed as unfounded, to pay the costs of the opposing parties.

Country/countries, region: United Kingdom Resource convention articles: Article 9: Access to Justice Languages: English Publisher:UNECE / Task Force on Access to Justice Date published:15-02-2017 Court/body:Court of Justice of the European Union Decision date: 11-04-2013 Read full resource:http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/pp/a.to.j/Jurisprudence_prj/EUROPEAN_UNION/CJEU_C260_11_Edwards/EU_2013_C260_11_Edwards.pdf Keywords: jurisprudence , access to justice , preliminary ruling , legal costs , prohibitive costs , prohibitively expensive costs , SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions , SDG Target 16.3 , SDG Target 16.6 SHARE

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