On behalf of Ecologists in Action, on the construction of a high-speed line between Marchena and Osuna in the province of Seville (Spain)  

The petitioner claims that on 15 June 2018, the Government of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia adopted an ex-post Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) on the construction of a high-speed line on the section between Marchena and Osun. With the EIA it is trying to bypass a judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union on 24 November 2016 (C-461/14) through a modification to the original Environmental Impact Declaration of 24 November 2006. The petitioner indicates that the ruling of the CJEU stated that, since Spain had not adopted the necessary measures to protect wild birds, there had been a risk of deterioration to the natural habitats and habitats of species in the special protected area ‘Campiñas de Sevilla’. The petitioner claims the Environmental Impact Assessment was adopted once a large part of the work was already underway and the impact had already occurred. The petitioner considers this a fraudulent act and urges the European Parliament to invite the Commission to distance itself from this dubious strategy and demand that Spain desists from its intention to carry out a project which the CJEU has declared illegal.