CELEX: 62016CN0671
Language: en
Date: 2016-12-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-671/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (Belgium) lodged on 29 December 2016 — Inter-Environnement Bruxelles ASBL, Groupe d’Animation du Quartier Européen de la Ville de Bruxelles ASBL, Association du Quartier Léopold ASBL, Brusselse Raad voor het Leefmilieu ASBL, Pierre Picard, David Weytsman v Région de Bruxelles-Capitale

13.3.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 78/13
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (Belgium) lodged on 29 December 2016 — Inter-Environnement Bruxelles ASBL, Groupe d’Animation du Quartier Européen de la Ville de Bruxelles ASBL, Association du Quartier Léopold ASBL, Brusselse Raad voor het Leefmilieu ASBL, Pierre Picard, David Weytsman v Région de Bruxelles-Capitale
   (Case C-671/16)
   (2017/C 078/18)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Conseil d’État
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Inter-Environnement Bruxelles ASBL, Groupe d’Animation du Quartier Européen de la Ville de Bruxelles ASBL, Association du Quartier Léopold ASBL, Brusselse Raad voor het Leefmilieu ASBL, Pierre Picard, David Weytsman
   
      Defendant: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale
   
      Question referred
   
   Must Article 2(a) of Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2001 on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment (1) be interpreted as including in the concept of ‘plans and programmes’ town planning regulations adopted by a regional authority:
   
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               which contain a map setting out the area to which they apply, limited to a single district, and defining various islands within that area to which different rules apply as regards the location and height of buildings; and
            
         
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               which also lay down specific planning provisions for areas situated in the areas around buildings, and precise indications on the spatial application of certain rules which they lay down taking into consideration the streets, straight lines traced perpendicular to those streets and distances in relation to the alignment of those streets; and
            
         
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               which pursue the objective of transforming the district concerned; and
            
         
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               which lay down the rules regarding the composition of the files of applications for planning permission subject to an environmental impact assessment in that district?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 2001 L 197, p. 30.