Judicial Review of the Requirement to Integrate the Natura 2000 Sites Protection System in a Sustainable Forest Economy (illustrated with the example of the Bialowieza Forest Management Plan) - European Energy and Environmental Law Review View Judicial Review of the Requirement to Integrate the Natura 2000 Sites Protection System in a Sustainable Forest Economy (illustrated with the example of the Bialowieza Forest Management Plan) by Barbara Iwanska,Mariusz Baran - European Energy and Environmental Law Review Judicial Review of the Requirement to Integrate the Natura 2000 Sites Protection System in a Sustainable Forest Economy (illustrated with the example of the Bialowieza Forest Management Plan) Barbara Iwanska Mariusz Baran 28 4

This article aims to identify and discuss diverse legal problems occurring in the process of the indirect application of art.6 of Directive 92/43 ensuring the integration of the requirements of the Natura 2000 sites’ conservation and species protection system into the operations of active forest management. A closer analysis of the phenomenon of legal integration enables the reader to view the problems of forest protection from two perspectives: the perspective of forest multifunctionality and the need for an integrated approach to various functions of forests, and the perspective of ensuring full effectiveness of the objectives of the Birds Directive and Habitats Directive. This article focuses on the latter objective. The context of the judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-441/17 the Bialowieza Forest as well as legal action taken by the Commissioner for Human Rights in Poland allow a discussion of the main problem of the lack of jurisdiction of administrative courts to review an act of the Minister for Environmental Affairs authorising a forest management plan in the light of the effective legal protection and the effectiveness of EU law in the decentralized application of Art. 6 of the Habitats Directive.

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