Case C-156/07: Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 10 July 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cosiglio di Stato (Italy)) — Salvatore Aiello and Others v Comune di Milano, Sindaco di Milano, Comitato tecnico-scientifico per l'emergenza del traffico e della mobilità nella città di Milano, Provincia di Milano, Regione Lombardia, Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti, Ministero dell'Interno, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Euromilano SpA, Metropolitana milanese SpA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 85/337/EEC — Assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment — Construction of a road in Milan)
Date: 2008-07-10
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: environmental impact, environmental protection, interpretation of the law, prevention of pollution, project evaluation

8.11.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 285/11

Order of
the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 10 July 2008
(reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cosiglio di
Stato (Italy)) — Salvatore Aiello and Others v Comune di
Milano, Sindaco di Milano, Comitato tecnico-scientifico per
l'emergenza del
traffico e della mobilità nella città di
Milano, Provincia di Milano, Regione Lombardia, Ministero
delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti, Ministero dell'Interno,
Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Euromilano SpA,
Metropolitana milanese SpA

(Case C-156/07) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 85/337/EEC
— Assessment of the effects of certain public and private
projects on the environment — Construction of a road in
Milan)

(2008/C 285/17)

Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Consiglio di Stato (Italy)

Parties

Applicant: Salvatore Aiello and Others

Defendants: Comune di Milano, Sindaco di Milano, Comitato
tecnico-scientifico per l'emergenza del traffico e della mobilità
nella città di Milano, Provincia di Milano, Regione Lombardia,
Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti, Ministero dell'In-
terno, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri

Interveners: Euromilano SpA, Metropolitana milanese SpA

Re:

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Consiglio di Stato — Inter-
pretation of Articles 2 and 4 of Council Directive 85/337/EEC
of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain
public and private projects on the environment (OJ 1985 L 175,
p. 40), and of Annex III thereto — Selection criteria to be taken
into account in evaluating a project — Construction of a road
(‘the Interquartiere Nord’) in Milan

and II of the directive, as provided in Article 4 of the directive and
subject to Article 1(4) and (5) and Article 2(3) of the directive;

2. Member States are under an obligation to take into account the
relevant selection criteria set out in Annex III of Directive 85/337,
as amended by Directive 97/11, when they determine, for projects
listed in Annex II of the directive — on the basis of a case-by-case
assessment or on the basis of thresholds or criteria that they lay
down — whether the project at issue must be made subject to an
environmental impact assessment;

3. Where a Member State chooses to determine on a case-by-case
basis which of the projects listed in Annex II of Directive 85/337,
as amended by Directive 97/11, must be made subject to an envir-
onmental impact assessment, it must ensure — either by having its
national rules refer back to Annex III of the directive or by incor-
porating the criteria set out in Annex III in its national rules —
that, as long as a particular one is relevant to the project at issue,
all of
those criteria can effectively be taken into account, and
cannot explicitly or implicitly exclude one of them.

(1) OJ C 140, 23.6.2007.

Order of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 July 2008 —
(reference for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht
Landau/Isar (Germany)) — Criminal proceedings against
Rainer Günther Möginger

(Case C-225/07) (1)

(First paragraph of Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure
— Directive 91/439/EEC — Mutual recognition of driving
licences — Withdrawal of driving licence — Temporary ban
on obtaining a new right to drive — Validity of a permit
obtained in another Member State during the period of
the ban)

(2008/C 285/18)

Language of the case: German

Operative part of the order

1. Article 2(1) of Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985
on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects
on the environment, as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC of
3 March 1997, must be interpreted as meaning that it does not
require any project that may have a significant effect on the envir-
onment to be made subject to the impact assessment provided for
in that directive, but only projects of a kind listed in Annexes I

Referring court

Amtsgericht Landau/Isar (Germany)

Criminal proceedings against

Rainer Günther Möginger