Europe – Norway – In a judgment of 28 October 2025 (Application No. 34068/21 – Greenpeace Nordic and Others v. Norway), the European Court of Human Rights held that while States have an obligation under Article 8 of the Convention to protect individuals against serious adverse effects of climate change on their life and health, in the case concerning petroleum exploration licenses in the Barents Sea granted on 10 June 2016, Norway has established a procedural framework ensuring a comprehensive environmental impact assessment prior to any extraction, including greenhouse gas emissions, including those related to combustion abroad, and providing for public consultation. The Court noted that although the processes leading to the 2016 decision were not fully comprehensive, and in particular, the assessment of the climate-related impacts of the activity was deferred, there was no indication that a deferred assessment was in itself insufficient to support the State’s guarantees regarding the respect for private and family life under the Convention, the legislation providing for such an assessment prior to any field development. Under Norwegian law, prior to granting any authorization enabling the exploitation of petroleum fields, a full environmental assessment must be conducted based on the best available scientific data, including: the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions, including combustion-related emissions even abroad; an assessment of the activity’s compatibility with national and international climate commitments; and effective public consultation when all options remain open

Europe – Norway – In a judgment of 28 October 2025 (Application No. 34068/21 – Greenpeace Nordic and Others v. Norway), the European Court of Human Rights held that while States have an obligation under Article 8 of the Convention to protect individuals against serious adverse effects of climate change on their life and health, in the case concerning petroleum exploration licenses in the Barents Sea granted on 10 June 2016, Norway has established a procedural framework ensuring a comprehensive environmental impact assessment prior to any extraction, including greenhouse gas emissions, including those related to combustion abroad, and providing for public consultation. The Court noted that although the processes leading to the 2016 decision were not fully comprehensive, and in particular, the assessment of the climate-related impacts of the activity was deferred, there was no indication that a deferred assessment was in itself insufficient to support the State’s guarantees regarding the respect for private and family life under the Convention, the legislation providing for such an assessment prior to any field development. Under Norwegian law, prior to granting any authorization enabling the exploitation of petroleum fields, a full environmental assessment must be conducted based on the best available scientific data, including: the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions, including combustion-related emissions even abroad; an assessment of the activity’s compatibility with national and international climate commitments; and effective public consultation when all options remain open

par | 29 octobre 2025 | *Europe

HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats Case Background The case concerns the procedural aspect of the State’s duty to effectively protect individuals from serious adverse effects of climate change on their life, health, well-being, and quality of...
Belgique – Région wallonne – Dématérialisation des procédures de délivrance des permis en Région wallonne : les noms des Vingt communes pilotes sont connus. La phase pilote portant sur les permis dits publics commencera en avril 2026. La dématérialisation des permis communaux commencera quant à elle début 2027

Belgique – Région wallonne – Dématérialisation des procédures de délivrance des permis en Région wallonne : les noms des Vingt communes pilotes sont connus. La phase pilote portant sur les permis dits publics commencera en avril 2026. La dématérialisation des permis communaux commencera quant à elle début 2027

par | 27 octobre 2025 | *Europe, B

HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats Suite à un appel aux communes pour la première phase pilote de dématérialisation, vingt communes ont été retenues sur base de critères objectifs garantissant une représentativité équilibrée des deux territoires...
Europe – The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled, in its judgment of 23 October 2025 (Case C-760/23), that Article 9(3) of Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on energy efficiency does not preclude national legislation under which the owner of an apartment in a condominium is required to pay the costs charged for thermal energy emitted by all the conduits and installations for the distribution and supply of thermal energy within the building — even where the stairwells and corridors of the building are not equipped with radiators — in proportion to the heated volume of that owner’s apartment, provided that the rules and parameters used to calculate the charges for the individual consumption of thermal energy for heating and domestic hot water ensure transparency and accuracy in the accounting of individual consumption

Europe – The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled, in its judgment of 23 October 2025 (Case C-760/23), that Article 9(3) of Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on energy efficiency does not preclude national legislation under which the owner of an apartment in a condominium is required to pay the costs charged for thermal energy emitted by all the conduits and installations for the distribution and supply of thermal energy within the building — even where the stairwells and corridors of the building are not equipped with radiators — in proportion to the heated volume of that owner’s apartment, provided that the rules and parameters used to calculate the charges for the individual consumption of thermal energy for heating and domestic hot water ensure transparency and accuracy in the accounting of individual consumption

par | 24 octobre 2025 | *Europe

HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats The dispute opposes a Bulgarian district heating company and an individual regarding payment of invoices for thermal energy supplied in a condominium building connected to a district heating system. Relevant EU...
Europe – The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled, in a judgment of 23 October 2025 (Cases C-221/24 and C-222/24), that when the competent authority of a country of dispatch discovers an illegal shipment of waste and decides to take back that waste under Article 24(2)(a)(c) of Regulation No 1013/2006, this provision requires that authority to ensure the recovery or disposal of the said waste

Europe – The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled, in a judgment of 23 October 2025 (Cases C-221/24 and C-222/24), that when the competent authority of a country of dispatch discovers an illegal shipment of waste and decides to take back that waste under Article 24(2)(a)(c) of Regulation No 1013/2006, this provision requires that authority to ensure the recovery or disposal of the said waste

par | 23 octobre 2025 | *Europe

HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJUE) was seized of a preliminary question by the Court of Appeal of Stockholm, Real Estate and Environmental Division. The case concerned two companies seeking to...
Europe – The European Court of Human Rights ruled, in a judgment of 23 October 2025 (case no. 16803/21 – Ayala Flores v. Italy), that a demolition order concerning a house built without planning permission, issued following a judgment delivered in 2002 and which became final in 2003, was not disproportionate under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to respect for private and family life and home). The Court found that the Italian Court of Cassation had taken the applicant’s arguments into account but considered them vague, unsubstantiated, and insufficient to outweigh the important public interest in carrying out the demolition. This was all the more so given that the applicant had continued to live in the house for 15 years in deliberate disregard of the law, despite knowing that it was located on a protected natural site and in a seismic risk zone

Europe – The European Court of Human Rights ruled, in a judgment of 23 October 2025 (case no. 16803/21 – Ayala Flores v. Italy), that a demolition order concerning a house built without planning permission, issued following a judgment delivered in 2002 and which became final in 2003, was not disproportionate under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to respect for private and family life and home). The Court found that the Italian Court of Cassation had taken the applicant’s arguments into account but considered them vague, unsubstantiated, and insufficient to outweigh the important public interest in carrying out the demolition. This was all the more so given that the applicant had continued to live in the house for 15 years in deliberate disregard of the law, despite knowing that it was located on a protected natural site and in a seismic risk zone

par | 23 octobre 2025 | *Europe

HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats The applicant and her husband built a 30 m² house on a plot of land owned by the latter in Procida, where they established their home in the early 1990s. In August 1996, the local authorities found that the...
Europe – In a judgment of 21 October 2025 (cases no 31620/15, 34859/15 and 14659/16 Naskov and Others and Others v. North Macedonia), the European Court of Human Rights, ruling on the question of material damage suffered by applicants as a result of a restitution order which had deprived them of the possibility of taking possession of a plot of land, annulled by a judgment delivered by the European Court on 12 December 2023, orders the Republic of North Macedonia to transfer to the applicants, within three months, a plot of land located in the same area and having the same value and the same characteristics as the land initially at issue in the case and, failing that, to pay them the sum of 774,000 euros

Europe – In a judgment of 21 October 2025 (cases no 31620/15, 34859/15 and 14659/16 Naskov and Others and Others v. North Macedonia), the European Court of Human Rights, ruling on the question of material damage suffered by applicants as a result of a restitution order which had deprived them of the possibility of taking possession of a plot of land, annulled by a judgment delivered by the European Court on 12 December 2023, orders the Republic of North Macedonia to transfer to the applicants, within three months, a plot of land located in the same area and having the same value and the same characteristics as the land initially at issue in the case and, failing that, to pay them the sum of 774,000 euros

par | 22 octobre 2025 | *Europe

HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats In a judgment delivered on 12 December 2023 (Naskov and Others v. North Macedonia, nos. 31620/15 and 2 others – “the principal judgment”), the Court held that the annulment of the final restitution order in the...
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