EU TAXONOMY: QUALIFYING AS GREEN
EU TAXONOMY: QUALIFYING AS GREEN

Summary/Abstract: What is ‘sustainable’? What economic activity qualifies as green and should receive, accordingly, investments? Is nuclear energy green? Is gas green? The legal classification system defines a list of environmentally sustainable economic activities that aims at playing a significant part in facilitating sustainable investment in EU. The paper points the different views member states have on what green means, on the Hinkley Point C Case before the Court of Justice of European Union. The main purpose of this paper is to explore the legal base concerning the concept of sustainable development in EU law. In order to address this question the paper is divided into three parts. The first part is dedicated to the legal framework of EU primary and secondary law relating to the concepts of sustainable development, green and environmental law. The recent classification of sustainable activities in the Taxonomy Regulation is considered in the second part. The third part of the paper selects some interpretations of the Court of Justice of European Union case-law.

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