CELEX: 62015CN0243
Language: en
Date: 2015-05-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-243/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Najvyšší súd Slovenskej republiky (Slovakia) lodged on 27 May 2015 — Lesoochranárske zoskupenie VLK v Obvodný úrad Trenčín

24.8.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 279/18
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Najvyšší súd Slovenskej republiky (Slovakia) lodged on 27 May 2015 — Lesoochranárske zoskupenie VLK v Obvodný úrad Trenčín
   (Case C-243/15)
   (2015/C 279/22)
   Language of the case: Slovak
   
      Referring court
   
   Najvyšší súd Slovenskej republiky
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: Lesoochranárske zoskupenie VLK
   
      Respondent: Obvodný úrad Trenčín
   
      In the presence of: Biely potok, a.s.
   
      Question referred
   
   Is it possible to guarantee the right to an effective remedy and to a fair trial, affirmed in Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in the event of a purported breach of the right to a high level of environmental protection established under the conditions laid down by the European Union, mainly by Council Directive 92/43/EEC (1) of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora, particularly [the right] to help to obtain the public’s opinion on a project which could have a significant impact on special areas of conservation falling within the European ecological ‘Natura 2000’ network, and the rights invoked by the appellant (as a not-for-profit association active in the protection of the environment at national level) under Article 9 of the Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters, within the limits indicated by the Court of Justice of the European Union in its judgment of 8 March 2011 in Case C-240/09 [Lesoochranárske zoskupenie], where the national court terminates the judicial review proceedings in a case concerning the review of a decision refusing to grant [that association] the status of party in administrative proceedings regarding the issuing of a permit, as has happened in the present case, and invites [that association] to lodge an appeal against its having been excluded from those administrative proceedings?
   
      (1)  OJ 1992 L 206, p. 7.