Brussels, 14/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) may not ask the European Commission to conduct an internal review of an environmental regulation or challenge in the Court of Justice of the EU any refusal by the Commission to do so, decided European judges in a ruling (joined cases C-404/12 P and C-405/12 P) delivered on Tuesday 13 January. This decision annuls a previous ruling (T 338/08) by the General Court of the EU which took the opposite view.
The European...