On Thursday 26 February, the Court of Justice of the EU clarified the conditions with which a road project must comply in order to ensure the protection of wild birds (Case C-131/24).
Environmental associations challenged, before the Austrian Federal Administrative Court, the authorisation to build a 1.69-kilometre dual carriageway, deeming that the project contravenes the Birds Directive, which aims to protect wild species.
The Austrian Federal Administrative Court asked the CJEU to...