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Associations of Communally-owned Forestry Proprietors 'Porceni Plesa' and 'Piciorul Batran Banciu' v. Romania, nos. 46201/16 and 47379/18
Lack of compensation for forest owners in relation to their inability to exploit their forests classified as protected natural areas, despite a right recognised by law.
Judgment
Erdal Muhammet Arslan and Others v. Türkiye, no. 42749/19
Effective remedy and appropriate jurisdictional response offered to the applicants in relation to the death of their relative buried under the rubble of a hotel following a destructive earthquake.
Judgment
Cangı and Others v. Türkiye, no. 48173/18
Applicability of the civil limb of Article 6 to the applicants’ participation in administrative proceedings on an environmental impact assessment decision concerning the extraction of gold using cyanide leaching at a mine.
Judgment
Efgan Çetin and Others v. Türkiye, no. 14684/18
Inability to challenge an administrative decision not requiring the commissioning of an environmental impact assessment in respect of a geothermal plant in the vicinity of the applicants’ olive grove and residences.
Judgment
Bryan and Others v. Russia, no. 22515/14
Applicants’ unacknowledged detention on board a vessel following a protest at an offshore oil drilling platform in the Pechora Sea.
Judgment
Kotov and Others v. Russia, nos. 6142/18 and 14 others
Protective measures taken to reduce effects of pollution from a landfill. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Pavlov and Others v. Russia, no. 31612/09
Protective measures taken to reduce effects of pollution from a landfill. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Advisory opinion on the difference in treatment between landowners’ associations “having a recognised existence on the date of the creation of an approved municipal hunters’ association” and landowners’ associations set up after that date [GC], no. P16-2021-002
The protection of the environment is of “general interest” under the Convention.
Advisory opinion | Legal Summary
Thibaut v. France (dec.), nos. 41892/19 and 41893/19
Effects of a planned extra-high-voltage line near the applicants’ house.
Decision
Bumbeș v. Romania, no. 18079/15
Activist fined for protesting against mining of precious metals in UNESCO world heritage site.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Traina Berto and Others v. Italy (dec.), no. 75505/12
Emergency fund and financial aid after flooding of business premises.
Decision
Yusufeli İlçesini Güzelleştirme Yaşatma Kültür Varlıklarını Koruma Derneği v. Turkey (dec.), no. 37857/14
NGOs' standing in environmental cases.
Decision
Kapa and Others v. Poland, nos. 75031/13 and 3 others
Residents disturbed by years of heavy traffic owing to motorway project.
Judgment
Association BURESTOP 55 and Others v. France, nos. 56176/18 and 5 others
Environmental NGOs’ access to accurate information on environmental risks of a planned nuclear waste site and right of access to a court.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Gavrilova and Others v. Russia, no. 2625/17
Retroactive annulment of title deeds over plots of land classified as “forestry resources”.
Judgment
Hudorovič and Others v. Slovenia, nos. 24816/14 and 25140/14
Allegedly insufficient measures to ensure access to safe drinking water and sanitation for Roma communities.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Çiçek and Others v. Turkey (dec.), no. 44837/07
Complaint about passive attitude of authorities regarding air pollution from industrial plant lacking substantiation of nature of emissions or applicants’ concrete suffering.
Decision| Legal Summary