COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Environment

EU Court of Justice rules on criteria that determine requirement to assess building project’s environmental impact

Brussels, 25/05/2023 (Agence Europe)

In a judgment handed down on Thursday, 25 May, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the requirement to conduct an environmental impact assessment for an urban development project cannot exclusively depend on its size (Case C-575/21).

In Austria, a property developer brought an action for failure to act before the Administrative Court of Vienna, since the Austrian capital’s municipality did not respond to its request for a building permit to be issued so that it could...