Las multas coercitivas por incumplimiento de las decisiones del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea en materia medioambiental

Abstract

This paper analyzes the repercussions for the States of the non-enforcement of the decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union in environmental matters. The mechanism of article 260 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union is examined, that is, the sanctions (penalty payments and lump sums) that can be dictated when a judgment of an infringement proceeding is not respected. The possibility of imposing periodic penalty payments when a State does not comply with interim measures ordered by the Court (as it happened for the first time in the Bialowieza case) is also studied.