'Protection Against Acts Adopted by the EU Institutions and Likely to Harm the Environment' - Professor Nicholas De Sadeleer: CELS Seminar

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🗓️ 25 January 2012

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Professor Nicholas De Sadeleer of the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Academy of Louvain gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Protection Against Acts Adopted by the EU Institutions and Likely to Harm the Environment" on Wednesday 25th January 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). For more information see the CELS website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to the first sales lunchtime seminar of 2012.
0:09.0	I've got the great pleasure of introducing Nicholas de Sardler,
0:16.0	who's a leading EU and international environmental lawyer.
0:21.6	He is John Monique Professor of EU Law at San Luis University in Brussels.
0:28.6	He also teaches at the Lovain Academy and is a visiting professor at the University of Lund and the University of Lorraine.
0:40.3	He's also the author of one of my personal favorite books,
0:46.3	environmental principles, from political slogans to legal rules,
0:52.3	which really covers EU environmental law from a very comparative perspective
1:00.1	with other systems, and is unfortunately published with Oxford University Press.
1:10.1	But Nicholas combines legal scholarship with practical experience.
1:19.6	He just finished a very comprehensive study for the European Commission
1:26.6	on NGOs and environmental groups' access to justice.
1:33.8	And I think today he will cheer with us some of his thoughts on protection against acts
1:39.3	adopted by EU institutions and likely to harm the environment.
1:43.5	So welcome with me, Professor De Soutelleher.
1:51.6	Hello.
1:54.7	Thank you for the Cambridge invitation to hold this conference.
2:03.6	The... invitation to hold this conference. The title of my conference is protection against acts adopted by the EU institutions, likely to harm the environment,
2:16.6	acts are likely to be challenged by private parties.
2:20.3	Against this background, I won't touch upon the issue of litigations taking within the realm of EU secondary law
2:32.3	taken by private parties before national court. So my speech is rather
2:39.6	narrow as regards standing of individuals or NGOs before the general court or the court of justice.
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