Ethical and legal conditions of sustainable development - the perspective of primary EU law and the case law of the court of justice of the European Union in matters of environmental protection

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) establishes in matters related to environmental protection the concept of sustainable development. The aim of the research is to recognise whether the Court refers to specific axiology when citing sustainability issues in its justifications. It should be checked if the CJEU equates the legal norm or the principle of the functioning of the European Union to sustainable development or a value having a non-normative source. By analysing selected judgments and their justifications, it will be determined whether the reference by the CJEU to sustainable development is only verbal (nominal) or if the manner of formulating arguments of the EU court proves that the authority has adopted a certain system of values to make decisions in the field of environmental protection. The analysis will be conducted from a law and ethics perspective.