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Document 62024CN0131

Case C-131/24, VIRUS and Others: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Austria), lodged on 16 February 2024 – Umweltorganisation VIRUS – Verein Projektwerkstatt für Umwelt und Soziales and Others v Amt der Niederösterreichischen Landesregierung, Abteilung Landesstraßenplanung – ST3

OJ C, C/2024/3158, 21.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3158/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3158/oj

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C/2024/3158

21.5.2024

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Austria), lodged on 16 February 2024 – Umweltorganisation VIRUS – Verein Projektwerkstatt für Umwelt und Soziales and Others v Amt der Niederösterreichischen Landesregierung, Abteilung Landesstraßenplanung – ST3

(Case C-131/24, VIRUS and Others)

(C/2024/3158)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Bundesverwaltungsgericht

Parties to the main proceedings

Complainants: Umweltorganisation VIRUS – Verein Projektwerkstatt für Umwelt und Soziales Bürgerinitiative ‘Nein zur Spange Wörth’, A.H. and Others, Umweltorganisation Verein Lebenswertes Traisental, Umweltorganisation FG LANIUS – Forschungsgemeinschaft für regionale Faunistik und angewandten Naturschutz

Defendant: Amt der Niederösterreichischen Landesregierung, Abteilung Landesstraßenplanung – ST3

Authority which adopted the contested decision: Amt der Niederösterreichischen Landesregierung, Gruppe Wirtschaft, Sport und Tourismus, Abteilung Anlagenrecht – WST1

Other parties to the proceedings: Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen-Finanzierungs-Aktiengesellschaft (ASFINAG), Stadt St. Pölten, Marktgemeinde Ober-Grafendorf

Questions referred

1.

Is Article 5 of Directive 2009/147/EC (1) (Birds Directive) to be interpreted as meaning that a case of deliberate disturbance, as referred to under point (d) of that article, is not constituted if, notwithstanding the fact that individual specimens of certain species could be disturbed, any effect on the objective of Article 2 of that directive will be prevented by means of measures effectively implemented in a timely and appropriate manner?

2.

If the first question is answered in the affirmative, must all scientific doubt concerning the effectiveness of the measures be excluded, as evidenced by a well-reasoned, professional appraisal of a court-appointed expert, or must there be objective scientific literature of successful practical experiences of those measures?

(1)  Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds (OJ 2010 L 20, p. 7).

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3158/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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