Case status: Findings adopted on 26.07.2021 – Non-compliance found.
Follow-up: On-going; see Decision VII/8e.
Topics: Public participation; Access to justice.
Articles alleged: 3 (1); 6 (1)–(10); 9 (2).
Articles considered by the Committee: 3 (1); 6 (1)–(10); 9 (2).
Articles, if any, found in non-compliance: 6 (10); 9 (2).
Summary: On 31 October 2016, Austrian environmental non-governmental organizations OEKOBUERO – Alliance of the Austrian Environmental Movement – and GLOBAL 2000 (Friends of the Earth Austria), Czech civic associations Jihočeské matky, z. s. and Calla, and the Aarhus Konvention Initiative, a German civil society movement, submitted a communication to the Compliance Committee alleging non-compliance with articles 3 (1), 6 (1)–(10) and 9 (2) of the Convention regarding the extension of the lifetime of nuclear reactors of Dukovany nuclear power plant.
Documents | Status | Date received or posted by the Secretariat |
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Annex 1: Chronology of the Dukovany power plant and extensions of lifetimes |
From the communicant | 31.10.2016 |
Letters to the Party concerned and communicants enclosing Committee's determination of preliminary admissibility and forwarding communication for the Party concerned's response | From the secretariat | 06.02.2017 |
Letter Annex: Decree issued by the State Office for Nuclear Safety (dated 2 February 2017) ENG CZE |
From the communicant | 27.02.2017 |
Cover letter enclosing response to the communication | From the Party concerned | 04.07.2017 |
Letters inviting Party concerned and communicants to hearing at Committee's 64th meeting | From the secretariat | 25.04.2019 |
Updated chronology | From the communicant OEKOBUERO | 28.06.2019 |
Opening statement delivered at the Committee's 64th meeting | From the communicant | 03.07.2019 |
Covering email providing additional information Annex 1: Request of 24 September 2015 for operating license for reactor 1 ENG CZE Annex 2: Request of 2 January 2017 for operating license for reactor 2 ENG CZE Annex 3: Request of 30 June 2017 for operating license for reactor 3 ENG CZE Annex 4: Request of 30 June 2017 for operating license for reactor 4 ENG CZE |
From the communicants | 19.09.2019 |
Email enclosing summary of the Constitutional’s Court verdict (dated 8 September 2020) | From the communicant (OEKOBUERO) | 13.11.2020 |
Letter enclosing questions from the Committee to the Party concerned | From the secretariat | 24.12.2020 |
Request for extension | From the Party concerned | 20.01.2021 |
Decision of the Chair of the Committee on extension requested by the Party concerned | From the secretariat | 20.01.2021 |
Email enclosing submission of documents |
From the Party concerned | 21.01.2021 |
Reply to questions of the Committee Annex 1: Atomic Act (1997), No. 18/1997 Coll. ENG Annex 4: Judgement of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic no. 4 As 157/2013–33 ENG/CZE Annex 5: Atomic Act (2016), No. 263/2016 Coll. ENG/CZE Annex 6: Section 70 of Act no. 114/1992 Coll. on nature and landscape protection ENG/CZE Annex 7: Sections 3 and 4 of Act No. 100/2001 Coll., on environmental impact assessment ENG & CZE Annex 8 (a): Supreme Administrative Court judgment no. 7 As 90/ 2011-154 of 27 October 2011 ENG/CZE Annex 8 (b): Constitutional Court decision US 463/12 of 20 June 2012 ENG/CZE Annex 8 (c): Constitutional Court decision of 8 September 2020 ENG/ CZE Annex 9 (a): Decision no. 24273/2005 of 16 December 2005 of the SONS CZE Annex 9 (b): Decision no. 55714/2006 of 8 December 2006 of the SONS CZE Annex 9 (c): Decision no. 26350/2015 of 18 December 2015 of the SONS CZE Annex 9 (d): Decision dated August 2016 granting an extension of the operating license of reactor 2 CZE Annex 9 (e): Decision of the SONS dated 28 June 2017 (reactor 2) CZE Annex 9 (f): Decision of the SONS dated 19 December 2017 (reactor 3) CZE Annex 9 (g): Decision of the SONS dated 19 December 2017 (reactor 4) CZE |
From the Party concerned | 08.02.2021 |
Comments on the Party concerned’s reply to the Committee’s questions | From the communicant | 01.03.2021 |
Draft findings and letters to the Party concerned and communicant inviting their comments | From the secretariat | 10.06.2021 |
Comments on the Committee’s draft findings | From the communicants OEKOBUERO and GLOBAL 2000 | 21.07.2021 |
Comments on the Committee’s draft findings | From the Party concerned | 23.07.2021 |
Findings ENG FRE RUS | 26.07.2021 |