Judgment_paragraph 58 · LB and Others v College van burgemeester en wethouders van de gemeente Echt-Susteren (C-826/18)

58Lastly, it should be noted that the objective of ensuring ‘wide access to justice’ provided for in Article 9(2) of the Aarhus Convention and compliance with the effectiveness of that provision would not be ensured by legislation which would make the admissibility of an action brought by a non-governmental organisation conditional on the role it may or may not have played during the participatory phase of the decision-making procedure, even though that phase does not have the same purpose as the exercise of judicial proceedings and the assessment that such an organisation may have of a project may, moreover, evolve depending on the outcome of that procedure (see, to that effect, judgment of 15 October 2009, Djurgården-Lilla Värtans Miljöskyddsförening, C–263/08, EU:C:2009:631, paragraphs 38, 39 and 48).