Stichting Greenpeace and Environmental Public Interest Standing before the Community Judicature: Some lessons from the Federal Court of Canada

Abstract

On April 2,1998, three years after the ruling of the Court of First Instance, the European Court of Justice issued its appeal decision in theStichting Greenpeacecase. The Court of First Instance had deniedlocus standiunder Article 230(4) (Article 173(4)) of the EC Treaty to Greenpeace, two local environmental groups and a series of individual applicants to challenge the decision of the European Commission to continue providing Community structural funds under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to Spain to build two power stations in the Canary Islands.