Anglo-Irish Sellafield row in EU legal limbo

A high-ranked legal advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said Ireland breached EU law by taking a case about the UK’s Sellafield nuclear power plant to the United Nations.

ECJ advocate general Miguel Poiares Maduro announced on Wednesday (18 January) that the Sellafield case should be dealt with in EU courts, not in an UN tribunal.

Ireland, concerned over radioactive discharges into the Irish Sea from Sellafield, referred to a UN maritime pollution law and started UN dispute settlement proceedings in 2001 to have the plant shut.

EU Observer