Case T-583/22: Judgment of the General Court of 10 September 2025 – Fédération environnement durable and Others v Commission (Environment – Aarhus Convention – Rejection of a request for internal review – Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 – Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 – Electricity generation from wind power – Taxonomy – Requirements for technical screening criteria – Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 – Substantial contribution to climate change mitigation – Substantial contribution to climate change adaptation – No significant harm to other environmental objectives)
Date: 2025-09-10
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU environmental policy, climate change, climate change policy, delegated regulation, energy production, environmental protection, wind energy








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C/2025/5689


3.11.2025






Judgment of the General Court of 10 September 2025 – Fédération environnement durable and Others v Commission


(Case T-583/22)
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(Environment - Aarhus Convention - Rejection of a request for internal review - Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 - Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 - Electricity generation from wind power - Taxonomy - Requirements for technical screening criteria - Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 - Substantial contribution to climate change mitigation - Substantial contribution to climate change adaptation - No significant harm to other environmental objectives)
(C/2025/5689)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicants: Fédération environnement durable (Paris, France), Bundesinitiative Vernunftkraft eV (Berlin, Germany), Vent de Colère! - Fédération nationale (Peyraud, France), Vent de Raison - Wind met Redelijkheid (VdR-WmR) (Petit-Rœulx, Belgium) (represented by: M. Le Berre, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. von Rintelen, G. Gattinara, C. Auvret and B. De Meester, acting as Agents)

Re:

By their action based on Article 263 TFEU, the applicants seek the annulment of Decision Ares(2022) 4952619 of 7 July 2022, by which the European Commission rejected as unfounded the request for internal review of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 of 4 June 2021 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing the technical screening criteria for determining the conditions under which an economic activity qualifies as contributing substantially to climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation and for determining whether that economic activity causes no significant harm to any of the other environmental objectives (OJ 2021 L 442, p. 1), as regards certain aspects related to the economic activity of ‘electricity generation from wind power’.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






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Dismisses the action;










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Orders Fédération environnement durable, Bundesinitiative Vernunftkraft eV, Vent de Colère! - Fédération nationale and Vent de Raison - Wind met Redelijkheid (VdR-WmR) to pay the costs.






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            OJ C 472, 12.12.2022.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/5689/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)