CELEX: 62017CN0329
Language: en
Date: 2017-06-01 00:00:00
Title: Case C-329/17: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 1 June 2017 — Gerhard Prenninger and Others

25.9.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 318/4
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 1 June 2017 — Gerhard Prenninger and Others
   (Case C-329/17)
   (2017/C 318/06)
   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
   
      Question referred
   
   Must Directive 2011/92/EU (1) 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 (the EIA Directive) be interpreted as meaning that the ‘clearance of a path’ for the purpose of the construction of a power supply system and for the duration of its lawful existence constitutes ‘deforestation for the purposes of conversion to another type of land use’ within the meaning of point 1(d) of Annex II to the EIA Directive?
   
      (1)  OJ 2012 L 26, p. 1.