CELEX: 62017CA0329
Language: en
Date: 2018-08-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-329/17: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 7 August 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Austria) — Gerhard Prenninger and Others v Oberösterreichische Landesregierung (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Directive 2011/92/EU — Assessment of the effects of certain projects on the environment — Annex II — Point 1(d) — Concept of ‘deforestation for the purposes of conversion to another type of land use’ — Clearance of a path in a forest in connection with the construction and operation of an overhead electrical power line)

1.10.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 352/12
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 7 August 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Austria) — Gerhard Prenninger and Others v Oberösterreichische Landesregierung
      (Case C-329/17) (1)
      
      ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Environment - Directive 2011/92/EU - Assessment of the effects of certain projects on the environment - Annex II - Point 1(d) - Concept of ‘deforestation for the purposes of conversion to another type of land use’ - Clearance of a path in a forest in connection with the construction and operation of an overhead electrical power line))
      (2018/C 352/15)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Verwaltungsgerichtshof
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Gerhard Prenninger, Karl Helmberger, Franziska Zimmer, Franz Scharinger, Norbert Pühringer, Agrargemeinschaft Pettenbach, Marktgemeinde Vorchdorf, Marktgemeinde Pettenbach, Gemeinde Steinbach am Ziehberg
      
         Defendant: Oberösterreichische Landesregierung
      
         intervener: Netz Oberösterreich GmbH
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Point 1(d) of Annex II to Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment must be interpreted as meaning that the clearance of a path in a forest for the purpose of the construction and operation of an overhead electrical power line, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, and for the duration of its lawful existence is covered by the concept of ‘deforestation for the purposes of conversion to another type of land use’ within the meaning of that provision.
      
         (1)  OJ C 318, 25.9.2017.