(48)As established by the case law of the Court of Justice 15 , Member States are not to restrict legal standing to challenge a decision of a public authority to those members of the public concerned who participated in the preceding administrative procedure to adopt that decision. In addition, any review procedure has to be fair, equitable, timely and not prohibitively expensive, and provide for adequate redress mechanisms, including injunctive relief as appropriate. Furthermore, in line with the case-law of the Court of Justice 16 access to justice is, as a minimum, to be granted to the public concerned.
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- 15 Judgment of the Court of Justice of 14 January 2021, LB and Others v College van burgemeester en wethouders van de gemeente Echt-Susteren , C–826/18, ECLI:EU:C:2021:7, paragraphs 58 and 59. ↩
- 16 Judgment of the Court of Justice of 25 July 2008, Dieter Janecek v Freistaat Bayern , C-237/07, ECLI:EU:C:2008:447, paragraph 42; judgment of the Court of Justice of 19 November 2014, Client Earth v The Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs , C-404/13, ECLI:EU:C:2014:2382, paragraph 56; judgment of the Court of Justice of 26 June 2019, Lies Craeynest and Others v B russels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest and Brussels Instituut voor Milieubeheer , C-723/17, ECLI:EU:C:2019:533, paragraph 56; and judgment of the Court of Justice of 19 December 2019, Deutsche Umwelthilfe eV v Freistaat Bayern , C-752/18, ECLI:EU:C:2019:1114, paragraph 56. ↩