63In the third place, as regards the referring court’s questioning, which seeks, more specifically, to determine whether the concept of ‘criteria laid down in … national law’, within the meaning of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention, allows the parties to that convention to lay down such criteria not only in relation to those persons entitled to bring an action, but also with regard to the subject matter of the action, it must be borne in mind that the Court has held that it follows from that provision – and in particular from that fact that, in accordance with the wording thereof, the review procedures referred to therein may be made subject to ‘criteria’ – that Member States may, in the context of the discretion they have in that regard, establish procedural rules setting out conditions that must be satisfied in order to be able to pursue such review procedures (judgments of 20 December 2017, Protect Natur-, Arten- und Landschaftsschutz Umweltorganisation, C‑664/15, EU:C:2017:987, paragraph 86, and of 14 January 2021, Stichting Varkens in Nood and Others, C‑826/18, EU:C:2021:7, paragraph 49).
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