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Enforcing EU Environmental Law against Member States: Air Pollution, National Courts and the Rule of Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Áine Ryall*
Affiliation:
School of Law, University College Cork, Ireland, [email protected].

Abstract

Case C-404/13, The Queen, on the application of Client Earth v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs EU:C:2014:2382, OJ C – 26 of 26.1.2015, p. 6.

When a Member State finds that the limit values cannot be respected before the deadline fixed by the Air Quality Directive and wishes to postpone that deadline for a maximum of five years, that Member State is required to make an application for the postponement of the deadline by drawing up an air quality plan demonstrating how those limits will be met before the new deadline (official headnote).

Type
Case Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015

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References

1 Richard Macrory, “European Court rules on air quality obligation”, Ends Report 479, January 2015, at p. 22.

2 European Commission, Press Release, “Commission takes action against UK for persistent air pollution problems”, IP/14/154, 20 February 2014.