Programme

Remedies against failure to act of an administrative authority

Reopening of administrative procedures

Alternative dispute resolutions in the administrative lawsuit

With focus on environmental matters

Case studies

Bucharest (Romania), 26-27 May, 2014

Trainers:

• Anders BENGTSSON (Sweden), Senior Judge at the Växiö Land and Environment Court and co-chair of the AEAJ working group Environmental Law
• Werner HEERMANN (Germany), former vice-president of the Administrative Court of Würzburg and co-chair of the AEAJ working group Environmental Law
• Matthias KELLER (Germany), Presiding judge at the Administrative Court of Aachen
• Klaus LERNHART (Germany), Presiding judge at the Administrative Court of Appeal Baden-Wuerttemberg

Adam NAGY European Commission, DG Environment

Monday, 26 May 2014

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome address, introduction

09:30 – 10:30 Adam NAGY, EU Commission DGENV

Recent development of EU environmental law

10: 30 –11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:45 Klaus LERNHART, Legal remedies against failure to act of an administrative authority, general observations

11:45 – 12:00 Questions and answers

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-14:15 Werner HEERMANN, Legal remedies against failure to act of an administrative authority in environmental matters- The influence of EU law and the Aarhus Convention

14:15 – 14:30 Questions and answers

14:30-15:00 Coffee break


15:00-16:30 Werner HEERMANN, Case study to be solved in sub-groups
Legal remedies against failure to act of an administrative authority

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

09:00-10:15 Anders BENGTSSON
Re-opening of administrative procedures

10.15-10:45 Coffee break

10:45–11:45 Matthias Keller; Amicable settlement in the administrative lawsuit

11:45 -12:00 Closure