La acción popular en asuntos medioambientales

Authors

  • Miquel Pons Portella

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rap.206.06

Keywords:

Contentious-administrative jurisdiction, administrative procedure, popular action, environment, Aarhus Convention.

Abstract

1998 Aarhus Convention, on access to information, public participation in
decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters, was incorporated into the Spanish legal system by means of Law 27/2006, of July 18, whose arts. 22 and 23 regulate the popular action in environmental matters. During the last decade, this litigation instrument has been used frequently to bring before Courts multiple administrative acts with an impact on the environment: sanctions, concessions, plans and regulations, investigation authorizations and even a pardon. In this way, Supreme Court’s Contentious-administrative Chamber has been able to specify the main characteristics of this action, whose analysis —legal, doctrinal and  jurisprudential— is the object of this paper.

Issue

Section

CASE LAW