Europe – On 28 May 2025, the European Union ratified the ‘Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction’ treaty (BBNJ Treaty)
HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats On 28 May 2025, the European Union and six of its Member States – Cyprus, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Portugal and Slovenia – ratified the International Treaty on the High Seas (BBNJ). This text,...
Dr. Michael Griem, Dean of the Frankfurt am Main Bar, is elected President of the European Bars Federation !
We are very happy to learn that Dr. Michael Griem, Dean of the Frankfurt Bar and partner at ou member, the SMNG law firm (https://smng.de/) member, has been elected President of the European Bars Federation (https://www.fbe.org/) this Saturday, May 31, 2025. The...
Europe – Norway – The Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association considered in a judgment of 21 May 2025 (case E-18/24) that downstream gas emissions, namely gas emissions from petroleum products produced on the basis of a permit, must be taken into account in the environmental impact assessment of the project when applying for a permit. They constitute effects of this project within the meaning of Directive 2011/92/EU of 13 December 2011 on environmental
HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats The Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA Court) held in a judgment of 21 May 2025 (Case E-18/24) that greenhouse gas emissions emitted by the combustion of oil and natural gas extracted...
Europe – On a preliminary question referred by the Council of State of Belgium, the Court of Justice of the European Union, by judgment of 8 May 2025 (C/236-24), held that, Article 9a of Directive 2011/92/EU of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, as amended by Directive 2014/52/EU of 16 April 2014, must be interpreted as meaning that where the authority competent to determine whether a project referred to in Article 4(2) of Directive 2011/92, as amended, must be subject to an environmental impact assessment, in accordance with Articles 5 to 10 of Directive 2011/92, as amended, is also the developer of the project concerned, an appropriate separation between the conflicting functions in the performance of that task must at least be applied
HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats On a preliminary question referred by the Council of State of Belgium, the Court of Justice of the European Union, by judgment of 8 May 2025 (C/236-24), held that, Article 9a of Directive 2011/92/EU of 13...