El acceso a la justicia en materia ambiental en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea

Abstract

Access to justice is a key element of the right to environment and in general of the enviromental protection. The European Court of Justice of the European Union plays a relevant role in the enviromental protection and the same applies to its case law regarding access to justice. Particularly, its work is carried out in order to broaden the locus standi by interpreting the same European normative and the Aahrus convention also ratified by Europe more favaourably. Likewise, there exist relevant rulings to prevent an excesive cost of administrative and judicial procedures.

Keywords

• assessment of enviromental impact
• european court of justice of the european unión
• locus standi
• non governmental organizations
• preliminary question