EU court backs environmentalists in pesticide case

EurActiv reported that a European Union court has annulled a Commission decision rejecting two environmental groups’ request for an internal review of a pesticide regulation.

The General Court’s decision on 14 June called into question the narrow wording of the regulation that obliges the EU’s institutions to protect the rights of civil society to participate in environmental decision-making.

General Court: 14.6.12: Case T‑338/08: JUDGMENT OF THE GENERAL COURT (Seventh Chamber): (Environment – Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 – Maximum residue levels for pesticides – Request for internal review – Refusal – Measure of individual scope – Validity – Aarhus Convention) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:62008TJ0338:EN:HTML

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