Prolongation de l’exploitation de centrales nucléaires et procédures d’évaluation des incidences (CJUE (GC), 29 juillet 2019, Inter-Environnement Wallonie et Bond Beter Leefmilieu Vlaanderen, aff. C-411/17)

On 29 July 2019, the Grand Chamber of the CJEU ruled on the interpretation of Directive 2011/92 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment and Directive 92/43 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora with respect to the obligation to subject Belgian legislative measures providing for the restarting of the operation of a nuclear power plant and the deferral of the deactivation of another nuclear power plant to an assessment of their environmental effects (EIA). The Court held that the measures at issue constitute a “proj... Mehr ...