Ireland: Waste Management

As Northern Ireland continues to progress towards its net zero targets, energy policy is evolving to reflect a broader, more diversified approach to sustainability.

The European Commission amended State Aid rules to allow NGOs to request a review of State Aid decisions that relate to EU environmental law. This new review mechanism comes in light of the findings of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee in case ACCC/C/2015/128...

On 15 April 2025, the Irish Government published the Climate Action Plan 2025 ("CAP25"). CAP25 is the third update to Ireland's Climate Action Plan under...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has consulted on a revised Waste Management Plan for England ("the Plan").

M50 Skip Hire & Recycling Limited, a waste collection operator in Dublin, lost its recent High Court challenge of a decision of the Commissioner for Environmental Information to grant access to certain of the Company's waste destination data ...

In a judgment issued on 25 July 2018, the CJEU followed the earlier Opinion of Advocate General Tanchev and held that although measures in a management plan would at a minimum maintain and also potentially increase...