Plaumann withering : standing before the EU General Court underway from distinctive to substantial concern

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dc.contributor.authorWINTER, Gerd
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-20T10:04:25Z
dc.date.available2023-04-20T10:04:25Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionPublished online: 27 April 2023en
dc.description.abstractDirect access to the EU General Court for annulment of certain EU legal acts presupposes that the applicant is individually concerned. Longstanding case law has defined ‘individually’ as distinctive and unique. This formal definition has often been criticised for substantially restricting access to justice. The present contribution takes this criticism further, arguing first, that under cover of the formal criterion of distinctiveness, practices have emerged that are uncertain and inconsistent sometimes rather tending towards substantive criteria. And second, that insofar as the criterion is taken literally, it provokes the paradoxical effect that the more serious and therefore widespread the damage resulting from a legal act is, the less legal protection of rights is granted – a situation that has become virulent with climate change. For several reasons, indirect access via national remedies combined with the referral of validity questions to the European Court of Justice is no effective substitute. The article submits, based on a reflection on principles of legal protection, that individual concern should not be defined formally as distinctive but rather be defined materially as a personal and severe concern. Furthermore, the article discusses the doctrinal implications of such a new definition and shows how the risk of opening the floodgates for actions could be managed.en
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dc.identifier.citationEuropean journal of legal studies, 2023, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 85-123en
dc.identifier.doi10.2924/EJLS.2023.008
dc.identifier.endpage123
dc.identifier.issn1973-2937
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.startpage85
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/75515
dc.identifier.volume15
dc.language.isoenen
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dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean journal of legal studiesen
dc.relation.urihttps://ejls.eui.eu/en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.titlePlaumann withering : standing before the EU General Court underway from distinctive to substantial concernen
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