%0 Journal Article
%T The Role of National Courts in Enforcing EU Law Standards of Environmental Protection
%A Sikora, Alicja
%J Public Administration Yearbook
%V 2021
%R 10.4467/24497800RAP.21.008.14824
%N 2021 (7)
%P 144-164
%K EU system of legal protection, access to justice, preliminary rulings, environmental protection, fundamental rights
%@ 2449-7797
%D 2021
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/rocznik-administracji-publicznej/article/rola-sadow-krajowych-w-egzekwowaniu-unijnych-norm-prawa-ochrony-srodowiska
%X 
	This paper examines the role of national courts in the field of environmental protection and the importance of the preliminary ruling procedure for the legal protection of individuals, or more broadly for the enforcement of EU environmental standards, in the light of recent case law of the Court of Justice. The special responsibility that national judges bear in the process of interpretation, control of legality and enforcement of environmental law norms reflects both the evolution and transformation of environmental protection in the system of EU law on the constitutional grounds, and the consequence of the specificity of the instruments of EU procedural law and EU substantive law, including the content of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.