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Document 62013CN0570

    Case C-570/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 6 November 2013 — Karoline Gruber

    IO C 24, 25.1.2014, p. 5–6 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

    25.1.2014   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    C 24/5


    Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 6 November 2013 — Karoline Gruber

    (Case C-570/13)

    2014/C 24/09

    Language of the case: German

    Referring court

    Verwaltungsgerichtshof

    Parties to the main proceedings

    Applicant: Karoline Gruber

    Defendant: Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat für Kärnten

    Mitbeteiligte Partei: EMA Beratungs- und Handels GmbH

    Weitere Partei: Bundesminister für Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend

    Questions referred

    1.

    Does European Union law, in particular Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (Directive 2011/92), (1) in particular Article 11 thereof, preclude a provision of national law under which a decision finding that a particular project does not require an environmental impact assessment is also binding on neighbours who did not have the status of parties in the previous proceedings for a declaratory decision and can be relied on as against them in subsequent development consent proceedings even though they have the opportunity to raise their objections to the project in those consent proceedings (the objection in the main proceedings being that the effects of the project will pose a risk to the appellant’s life, health or property or represent an unreasonable nuisance to her in the form of smell, noise, smoke, dust, vibration or otherwise)?

    If Question 1 is answered in the affirmative:

    2.

    Does European Union law, in particular Directive 2011/92, if applied directly, require that the binding effect referred to in Question 1 be invalidated?


    (1)  OJ 2012 L 26, p. 1.


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