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Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 20 December 2017.
Protect Natur-, Arten- und Landschaftsschutz Umweltorganisation v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Gmünd.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof.
Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Directive 2000/60/EC — EU action in the field of water policy — Article 4(1) and Article 14(1) — Obligations to prevent deterioration of the status of bodies of surface water and encourage the active involvement of all interested parties in the implementation of the directive — Aarhus Convention — Public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters — Article 6 and Article 9(3) and (4) — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Article 47 — Right to effective judicial protection — Project that is likely to have an impact on water status — Administrative procedure for a permit — Environmental organisation — Application seeking to secure status as a party to the administrative procedure — Possibility of relying on rights deriving from Directive 2000/60/EC — Extinction of the status of party to the procedure and of the right to bring an action if those rights are not exercised within good time during the administrative procedure.
Case C-664/15.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2017:987

Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 14 December 2017.
Hungary v European Commission.
EAGF and EAFRD — Expenditure excluded from financing — Regulations (EC) Nos 1782/2003, 1290/2005, 73/2009 and 1122/2009 — Expenditure incurred by Hungary — Conditionality — Control of Statutory Management Requirements — Control of good agricultural and environmental conditions — Lump-sum and specific corrections — Risk for the Funds.
Case T-505/15.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2017:914

Order of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 26 October 2017.
Federcaccia Toscana and Others v European Commission.
Environment — Conservation of wild birds — Species which may be hunted — Conditions to be complied with by national laws on hunting — Harmonisation of the criteria for the application of Article 7(4) of Directive 2009/147/EC — Closed period for hunting in Tuscany.
Case T-562/15.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2017:765

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 20 September 2017.
Elecdey Carcelen SA and Others v Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha.
Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Castilla-La Mancha.
References for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Electricity generated by wind power — Directive 2009/28/EC — Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources — Subparagraph (k) of the second subparagraph of Article 2 — Aid scheme — Subparagraph (e) of the second subparagraph of Article 13(1) — Administrative charges — Directive 2008/118/EC — General arrangements for excise duty — Article 1(2) — Other indirect taxes for specific purposes — Directive 2003/96/EC — Taxation of energy products and electricity — Article 4 — Minimum rate of taxation on energy — Levy imposed on turbines designed to produce electricity.
Joined Cases C-215/16, C-216/16, C-220/16 and C-221/16.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2017:705

Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 14 September 2017.
European Commission v Hellenic Republic.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 91/271/EEC — Urban waste water treatment — Article 4(1) and (3) — Secondary or equivalent treatment.
Case C-320/15.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2017:678

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 26 July 2017.
ArcelorMittal Atlantique et Lorraine SASU v Ministre de l’Écologie, du Développement durable et de lʼÉnergie.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal administratif de Montreuil.
Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Directive 2003/87/EC — Article 10a(1) — EU greenhouse gas emission allowance trading scheme — Free allocation of allowances — Decision 2011/278/EU — Validity — Principle of sound administration — Determination of the product benchmark for hot metal — Use of data in the ‘BREF’ for iron and steel production and guidelines for establishing benchmarks for hot metal — Meaning of ‘similar products’ — Reference installations — Obligation to state reasons.
Case C-80/16.

Court reports – general

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2017:588

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 13 July 2017.
Túrkevei Tejtermelő Kft. v Országos Környezetvédelmi és Természetvédelmi Főfelügyelőség.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Szolnoki Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság.
Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Articles 191 and 193 TFEU — Directive 2004/35/EC — Applicability ratione materiae — Air pollution caused by illegal waste incineration — Polluter-pays principle — National legislation establishing joint liability between the owner of the land on which the pollution occurred and the polluter.
Case C-129/16.

Court reports – general

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2017:547

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 22 June 2017.
E.ON Biofor Sverige AB v Statens energimyndighet.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Förvaltningsrätten i Linköping.
Reference for a preliminary ruling — Promotion of energy from renewable sources — Biofuels for transport — Directive 2009/28/EC — Article 18(1) — ‘Mass balance’ system to ensure that biogas meets the prescribed sustainability criteria — Validity — Articles 34 and 114 TFEU — National rules requiring the mass balance to be achieved within a location with a clear boundary — Practice of the competent national authority to accept that that condition may be satisfied where sustainable biogas is transported using the national gas network — Order of that authority stating that that condition cannot be satisfied where sustainable biogas is imported from other Member States via interconnected national gas networks — Free movement of goods.
Case C-549/15.

Court reports – general

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2017:490

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 1 June 2017.
Proceedings brought by Gert Folk.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof.
Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environmental liability — Directive 2004/35/EC — Article 17 — Temporal scope of application — Operation of a hydroelectric power plant put into operation before the period for transposing that directive had expired — Article 2(1)(b) — Concept of ‘environmental damage’ — National law excluding all damage covered by an authorisation — Article 12(1) — Access to justice in environmental matters — Locus standi — Directive 2000/60/EC — Article 4(7) — Direct effect.
Case C-529/15.

Court reports – general

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2017:419

Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 4 May 2017.
European Commission v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 91/271/EEC — Articles 3 to 5 and 10 — Annex I, Sections A, B and D — Urban waste-water treatment — Collecting systems — Secondary or equivalent treatment — More stringent treatment of discharges into sensitive areas.
Case C-502/15.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2017:334