44In that regard, it must be noted that, where a Member State lays down rules of procedural law applicable to the matters referred to in Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention concerning the exercise of the rights that an environmental organisation derives from Article 4 of Directive 2000/60, in order for decisions of the competent national authorities to be reviewed in the light of their obligations under that article, the Member State is implementing an obligation stemming from that article and must therefore be regarded as implementing EU law, for the purposes of Article 51(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (‘the Charter’), so that the Charter is applicable (see, to that effect, judgment of 8 November 2016, Lesoochranárske zoskupenie VLK, C‑243/15, EU:C:2016:838, paragraph 52).
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