Key legal question
Whether the postponed environmental impact review under Art. 74a(2) VIL made the 2001 approval of the operating regulations unlawful.
Extracted holding
The postponement was acceptable in the specific transitional circumstances, and the appellants suffered no decisive prejudice.
Extracted reasoning
The court accepted that the regulations had been approved before the overall review, but emphasized that the same operating concept had already been examined in earlier environmental assessments and that the full review was later carried out. The appellants also lacked any present, protected interest in remittal.