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Document 62015CA0379
Case C-379/15: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 28 July 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Association France Nature Environnement v Premier ministre, Ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement durable et de l'Énergie (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2001/42/EC — Assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment — National measure incompatible with EU law — Legal consequences — Power of the national court to maintain certain effects of that measure provisionally — Third paragraph of Article 267 TFEU — Obligation to make a reference to the Court for a preliminary ruling)
Case C-379/15: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 28 July 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Association France Nature Environnement v Premier ministre, Ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement durable et de l'Énergie (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2001/42/EC — Assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment — National measure incompatible with EU law — Legal consequences — Power of the national court to maintain certain effects of that measure provisionally — Third paragraph of Article 267 TFEU — Obligation to make a reference to the Court for a preliminary ruling)
Case C-379/15: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 28 July 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Association France Nature Environnement v Premier ministre, Ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement durable et de l'Énergie (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2001/42/EC — Assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment — National measure incompatible with EU law — Legal consequences — Power of the national court to maintain certain effects of that measure provisionally — Third paragraph of Article 267 TFEU — Obligation to make a reference to the Court for a preliminary ruling)
OJ C 350, 26.9.2016, p. 11–12
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
26.9.2016 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 350/11 |
Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 28 July 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Association France Nature Environnement v Premier ministre, Ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement durable et de l'Énergie
(Case C-379/15) (1)
((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 2001/42/EC - Assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment - National measure incompatible with EU law - Legal consequences - Power of the national court to maintain certain effects of that measure provisionally - Third paragraph of Article 267 TFEU - Obligation to make a reference to the Court for a preliminary ruling))
(2016/C 350/14)
Language of the case: French
Referring court
Conseil d’État
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Association France Nature Environnement
Defendants: Premier ministre, Ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement durable et de l'Énergie
Operative part of the judgment
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A national court may, when this is allowed by domestic law, exceptionally and case by case, limit in time certain effects of a declaration of the illegality of a provision of national law adopted in disregard of the obligations provided for by Directive 2001/42/EC of the Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2001 on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment, in particular the obligations arising from Article 6(3) of the directive, provided that such a limitation is dictated by an overriding consideration linked to environmental protection and having regard to the specific circumstances of the case pending before it. That exceptional power may, however, be exercised only if all the conditions flowing from the judgment of 28 February 2012 in Inter-Environnement Wallonie and Terre wallonne (C-41/11, EU:C:2012:103) are satisfied, namely;
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As EU law now stands, a national court against whose decisions there is no longer any judicial remedy under law is in principle required to make a reference to the Court for a preliminary ruling, so that the Court may assess whether, exceptionally, provisions of national law held to be contrary to EU law may be provisionally maintained in the light of an overriding consideration linked to environmental protection and in view of the specific circumstances of the case pending before that national court. That national court is relieved of that obligation only when it is convinced, which it must establish in detail, that no reasonable doubt exists as to the interpretation and application of the conditions set out in the judgment of 28 February 2012 in Inter-Environnement Wallonie and Terre wallonne (C-41/11, EU:C:2012:103). |