57In that regard, the Court has held that the national legislature is entitled to confine the rights the infringement of which may be relied on by an individual in legal proceedings contesting one of the decisions, acts or omissions referred to in Article 10a of Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (OJ 1985 L 175, p. 40), now Article 11 of Directive 2011/92, to individual public-law rights, that is to say, individual rights which, under national law, can be categorised as individual public-law rights (see, to that effect, judgments of 12 May 2011, Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland, Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen, C‑115/09, EU:C:2011:289, paragraph 45; of 16 April 2015, Gruber, C‑570/13, EU:C:2015:231, paragraph 40; and of 15 October 2015, Commission v Germany, C‑137/14, EU:C:2015:683, paragraph 33).
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