Member States can be held liable for health damage resulting from excessively high air pollution, according to the opinion of Advocate General Juliane Kokott delivered on Thursday 5 May (Case C-61/21).
A Paris resident is claiming €21 million in compensation from the French State because, he claims, the increasing air pollution in that agglomeration has damaged his health.
For the Advocate General (https://aeur.eu/f/1iv), an infringement of the limit values for the protection of air...