Original language

Dutch

Country
Netherlands
Date of text
Status
Unknown
Type of court
National - higher court
Sources
InforMEA
Court name
European Court of Justice
Seat of court
Luxembourg
Reference number
200506050/1
Tagging
Licences
Free tags
Environment gen.
Wild species & ecosystems
Link to full text
http://www.asser.nl/eelcases/case.aspx?id=389
Justice(s)
Veltman, J.
Tentij, M.
van Oost, J.C.
de Groot
Kuijpers, E.M.B.
Abstract
The Dutch Minister of Agriculture, Nature Management and Food Quality should not have issued a licence to companies that wanted to introduce Irish mussels and oysters in the Oosterschelde, a protected nature area. It was not demonstrated that this would not have significant effects on a protected nature area. The Minister should have made the plans/projects subject to appropriate assessments of their implications for the site in view of the site’s conservation objectives, in line with the explanations given to the Habitats directive in ECJ Case C-127/02.